Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apart from Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, Humphrey has history against him; no Vice President has succeeded to the White House by the elective process since Martin Van Buren turned the trick in 1836. Humphrey is undismayed. Despite his relationship with Lyndon Johnson and his manful attempt to avoid the lassitude of his office, Humphrey inevitably found the vice-presidency frustrating and confining. "One of the most awkward offices ever created by the hand of man," he said once. "It is an unnatural role for an active politician...
Jack Turco lined a shot to shortstop; and on the double play attempt Lord was cut off at second, Ignacio moved to third, and Cobb scored...
First of all, business must stop the panic itself. It must not make a crisis out of a problem. Students don't hate it; they're going into the profession more than ever. Robert Galvin, Chairman of the Board of Motorola, made an expensive attempt at bridging the gap last year through a dialogue in campus newspapers across the country. Unfortunately, Galvin made the problem seem much greater than it actually is. What needs to be done is to stop stressing what students think is wrong with business and start emphasizing what is right with business. Business can certainly compete...
...addition to the problems discussed above the committee may get into the traditional issues like the inequalities between the Houses and the role students ought to have in making House rules (parietals!). Mainly, however, the work of the new committee is an attempt to reconstruct House life to solve equally vital long-term problems...
...those who said they would refuse service, 26.5 per cent said they would leave the country, 11 per cent said they would go to jail, and 9 per cent said they would remain here but "attempt to avoid the draft...