Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filter Lucre. In Kumanovo, Yugoslavia, Slavko Mitroviski found an imported Greek cigarette on the floor of a movie theater, used half a box of matches in an unsuccessful attempt to light it, unrolled the stubborn fag, found in it a tightly rolled U.S. $1,000 bill...
...months since Sputnik I, Russia's Khrushchev had repeatedly rattled his rockets in an attempt to neutralize and intimidate Western nations. A series of successful U.S. missile shots was a comforting background in Paris last week, as the NATO Council of Foreign Ministers rejected the Kremlin's plan to make West Berlin a demilitarized "free city.'' The NATO ministers gave short shrift to neutralist disengagement schemes, held fast to the basic point that Germany must be reunited by free elections, with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Said NATO's commanding general...
...vote on Algeria, which the French (and the French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani had bustled over to Bonn a few-days earlier in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Adenauer and Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano that other NATO powers would thus be downgraded. Nor are the British keen to include France in what they regard as a cozy Anglo-American partnership, want France to earn its right to Big Threedom...
...coalition of five non-Communist parties-the 19th government since World War II-was forced out by internal bickering and pressure from outside. Finland's big neighbor, the Soviet Union, recalled its ambassador, and played hard-to-get in trade talks with the Finns in a bald attempt to force a less conservative regime. The Communists, who hold 50 seats in a 200-seat Parliament, now hold something of a balance of power among the squabbling nonCommunists...
Comforters & Comforted. "We attempt-millions of us, the psychiatrists say-to justify the inexplicable misery of the world by taking the guilt upon ourselves, as Job attempted to take it: 'Show me my guilt, O God.' We even listen, as Job did, to the Comforters. [But where] Job's Comforters undertook to persuade him, against the evidence of his own inner conviction, that he was guilty, ours attempt to persuade us that we are not-that we cannot be-that, for psychological reasons, or because everything is determined in advance by economic necessity anyway, or because...