Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. I am told that top officials in the Administration have been driving very hard for an agreement on a bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...
...abortive attempt last year to recall Church for his dovishness, financed by an out-of-state right-winger, riled even voters who disagreed with their Senator on Viet Nam. Hansen compounded that gaffe with a roundhouse charge that Church was "one of the chief architects of the chaos we are experiencing in our streets and in our foreign and fiscal policies." Recently, however, Hansen has been following the dictates of a Seattle public relations firm, and has made up ground by hitching his campaign to Nixon's coattails...
...share in 1966. Now it is down to about $13. After reeling off a series of sad statistics to his stockholders, Cole announced that he would yield his presidency to a younger executive, move into the chairmanship-and give up his yearly salary "as a gesture and an attempt to do everything within my power to turn this company around...
What saves the book from being mere female savagery is Spark's balancing sensitivity to naked human need. Annabel debases herself in a desperate attempt to protect her blameless, hardworking existence. Without sentimentality, the author pities Annabel; the reader can laugh at her but cannot side against...
...maximum penalty on the charge of "assisting in an attempt at a prohibted border crossing" is five years in prison. The Associated Press reported that the two and a half months Miss Blueye has spent in jail while awaiting trial would be counted as part of her sentence...