Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged that the responses were "purely and simply an attempt by Mr. Long to protect the man to whom he gave" the information about the development. DeGuglielmo offered to jump off the 20th story of the apartment development if it materialized...
Anybody who tries to formulate some "definitive" conclusions about the 1959 Harvard baseball team, when it still has five games left on its schedule, ought to have his head examined. Such an attempt represents a most flagrant instance of that hazardous occupation known as Climbing-Out-on-a-Limb. And it is only with a weather eye on the ground below that this writer dares venture out even a few inches toward the uncertain fringes...
...discussed in the first term would give depth to a historical study of art styles. The student at last would have a chance to emerge with a deep familiarity with a significant era in art history. What is far more important, the course will have made a thorough attempt to "increase the student's visual perception of works...
...church ruled both of their previous marriages valid), they split up. After a year writing poetry on a Guggenheim fellowship, Everson joined the Catholic Worker movement in Oakland. Fourteen months later he became Dominican Brother Antoninus at Oakland's St. Albert's College. Except for an unsuccessful attempt to study for the priesthood ("I couldn't see it through for psychological reasons") and a three-week protest walkout (he objected to the installation of a TV set in the priory), Everson has served faithfully, washing dishes, scrubbing floors, making beds and working in the print shop...
...national martyr. Instead, in a duel, innocent Angelo spits his enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very efficiently-and comes prancing back for more, as insatiable for adventure as Don Quixote, as indestructible as the comic hero of an old one-reeler...