Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South was led down the blind alley of blind resistance by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance...
...proof that he plotted against the state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
...failure of the latest debt "rollover" attempt was a fresh sign of softness in the Government bond market-and of the size of Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson's task of refinancing $42 billion of Government securities falling due this year. At a time when most investors want to buy stocks, real estate or other things as a hedge against inflation, Anderson is finding the public increasingly uninterested in bonds. Furthermore, Wall Streeters thought he had made a mistake in trying to sell securities with one year as the shortest maturity. At a time when investors were trying...
...Strikes, No Unions. P-B instituted group life insurance in 1928, profit-sharing for all employees in 1936 (current share: 6½%; of base pay), health insurance in 1941, noncontributory pensions in 1948. P-B has never had a strike, and the last attempt to unionize the company was snowed under 2 to 1 back in 1946. But Pitney-Bowes does have an elaborate parliament of workers, supervisors and brass who meet regularly and publicly discuss everything from the cafeteria's coffee (pretty good) to wages (above average...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera...