Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCurdy ran his own melodramatic race against Yale in an attempt to groom these two runners in time for the meet. Although the Crimson lost by a point, he succeeded in squeezing the maximum possible effort from his team...
David F. Peterson '59, president of the HYRC, claimed that the resolution was "only an attempt of the vice-president and the secretary to get revenge for my criticism of their actions...
...return to the German side and the rationality of her past life. She cannot forsake the dying men on the other side of the river, but declares that after this last act of merciful contrition towards the unattainable standard of humaneness, she will return. It is a tragic attempt at a moral compromise--her own conciliation of the universal conscience--it races to its unavoidable conclusion as, delivering the drugs, she is caught in a cross-fire on the bridge...
...life, the year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line, too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens who cannot read and write English. By clumsily...
...choral singing and style of conducting are quite different. The emphasis on diction which was a trademark amounting almost to a fetish in past years has been relaxed, allowing for a smoother, more fluid performance, but sacrificing the percussive element to some degree. There seems to be less attempt at choral "effects," which provide both interest and distraction, in favor of more concentration on the overall shape of long sections and on greater continuity. Professor Forbes' conducting is more precise and less energetic than his predecessor's, but there doesn't seem to be any less spirit...