Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer holding out for a formal cease-fire agreement, would be willing to negotiate Chiang's forces out of Quemoy if the Communists would just stop shooting. ¶Denied Chiang's statement that the U.S. had approved his Quemoy buildup, countered flatly that the U.S. "did not attempt to veto it"-but nonetheless had thought the move unwise (a military point seriously disputed by the Pentagon, which thought Chiang's buildup none too large to resist invasion...
...young nationalists the massacres of May 1945 meant one thing: the only way Algeria would ever get self-government was by armed revolt. Avidly they began to read military history, concentrating on guerrilla warfare-memoirs of French resistance officers, Tito's partisans, Irish rebels. Their first attempt at an underground, the Organisation Spéciale, soon had 3,000 recruits, ample stocks of hidden weapons, too ambitious and complex a hierarchy, and a card file of members. Result: when French police once got a lead into the O.S., it swiftly collapsed...
With the "partners" on Cyprus sharply at odds, and Greece muttering about quitting NATO, Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General, flew to Athens, offered a proposal: a conference of all parties in a new attempt to solve the agonizing quarrel. Accepting, Greece for the first time in three bitter years showed itself willing to sit down with Turkey though denying it is any of Turkey's business...
...crowds stream down Bolyston Street and pour through the gates of the Stadium this afternoon an undefeated Lehigh squad will be finishing up final strategy discussions and making last moment changes in an attempt to score its first touch-down in the history of its rivalry with the Crimson...
...President and his allies are interested in preserving appearances, their best bet is to find a method of graceful retreat. But until the dim day when they decide that Chiang's islands are expendable, they should not attempt to squelch or denigrate public opinion on this matter...