Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
Ravenel, cutting across the field diagonally, was the last man with any sort of chance to catch the fleeting Taylor. He ran doggedly, with a look of desperation on his face, and he was too late. The team dazedly lined up for the extra-point attempt. From the battered and bewildered aspect of the players you could tell that the try would succeed. The Crimson tried to mount an offense in the game's closing seconds, but the squad's determination was gone. As the gun sounded, Ravenel was tackled hard on an unsuccessful reverse...
Last week, the committee took tentative steps toward disaffiliation, by deciding not to attempt "drastic corrective action" while remaining in NSA. Instead, they moved to consider a report made last summer by M.I.T.'s three-man delegation to the National Student Congress...
...this poem is evident to a greater or lesser degree in all of the others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that his attempt has been unsuccessful but not caring to return and to correct, moving on immediately for the next abortive try. He puts together various dissimilar images, which obviously connect in his own mind, but which the reader is likely to find too personal to understand. And, above all, the words when read...
What began as an attempt to freely elect a committee for the American group ended in a publicized demonstration of the Communists' method of insuring their idea of "peace". The anti-Communist participants sought to win the election as a matter of principle, and to prevent the small group of Communist Americans working with the Festival organizers from controling the the seminar tickets. Though the Communists never really did effectively control attendance at the seminars, their occasionally clever but mostly crude obstruction earned them an undemocratic brand at the Festival...