Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband and I were among the onlookers who were tear-gassed on Michigan Avenue. We thought it a minor discomfort to endure while the police attempted to control that frenzied, filthy, foul-mouthed mob of cretins. We watched these "innocents," as you called them, doing their "thing," i.e., overturning police motorcycles, setting fires on the sidewalks, rocking a van containing policemen in an attempt to overturn it, foisting signs in our faces reading "F- the draft," waving the Cong flag as they chanted "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh." Spare me the bleeding heart's account of how they were...
...Propaganda Ministry. Hurrah for Daley and his police force. God help us when things come to pass as our news media would like to see it. I couldn't be paid enough to go into the streets and face what the Chicago police did in their attempt to enforce law and order and protect those who find it so easy to condemn...
...conferences, speeches and interviews, Agnew conjured up some long-dormant poltergeists of American politics. Hubert Humphrey, he said, was "soft on Communism." In addition, the Vice President was "soft on inflation and soft on law and order over the years" ? in fact, "squishy soft." Because of Humphrey's attempt to straddle hawk and dove lines on Viet Nam, said Agnew, the Vice President "begins to look a lot like Neville Chamberlain." He added: "Maybe that makes Mr. Nixon look more like Winston Churchill...
...reminded them, Republicans said "pretty things" to the South, but then appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. "The national Republican Party, for the first time since Reconstruction, put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, he added, was an attempt to "con" the South into repeating the mistake...
...black Tatra limousines. From them stepped Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, the ministers of his regime and 277 members of the National Assembly. Only a few months ago, these men had gathered in the historic castle to enact the reforms that started Czechoslovakia on its brief but exhilarating attempt to reconcile Communism with human freedoms. Now, under the threat of Soviet invaders, they came to dismantle their own democracy...