Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character, prestige, experience and constitutional powers to be most capable of providing leadership. In two firm, decisive moves, the President stepped forward and provided just that. Last week, he went before a Democratic-controlled Congress and delivered a State of the Union message that marked not the least attempt to shrug off blame for past letdowns, spoke candidly but without hand-wringing about the present, mapped a hard line for future progress. This week he sent off a letter to the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Bulganin, thus stepped into a world scene that had become a mishmash of creeping neutralism...
Power Misunderstood. "The only deterrent to the imposition of Russian will in Western Europe is the belief that, from the outset of any such attempt, American power would be employed in stopping it, and, if necessary, would inflict upon the Soviet Union injury which the Moscow regime would not wish to suffer. The regime will not believe that this will happen if the U.S. and Western Europe are separated and stand alone...
This policy left Russia with a comfortable and obvious opening to offer oil-development loans and drilling rigs that the state monopolies now get, for-cash, from the U.S. Soviet government officials and South American Communist leaders met in Moscow in November and plotted a new Russian attempt at trade penetration, starting in Brazil. Nikita Khrushchev himself offered oil-drilling equipment to Brazil...
Less than two years after the U.S. Treasury's unsuccessful attempt to shutter Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker (TIME, April 9, 1956), the Communist Party succeeded in doing so this week. The tabloid (circ. 5,574) died despite feverish rescue attempts by Editor in Chief (and a party secretary) John W. Gates, 44, who was cut off from party funds in a long-drawn-out squabble (TIME, Jan. 13) with the dominant Stalinist faction led by Party Chief William Z. Foster. As the Daily Worker went, so went Editor Gates's party card. After 27 years...
...Oppenheimer's contributions to the development of the atom bomb are well-known. There is little doubt that he could today render valuable service to America's dismal attempt to find her place in the sun in the Sputnik...