Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate has long brooded over what it feels to be an arrogation of its influence in foreign affairs. Conservatives in the mid-'50s nearly succeeded in initiating a constitutional restriction, the Bricker Amendment, that would have stopped the President from signing executive agreements with other countries. When that attempt failed, emotions cooled for a while, only to be fired once again by Viet Nam and what many felt was Johnsonian duplicity in leading the U.S. into...
Like the Johnson Administration before him, President Nixon opposed the measure as an attempt to tie the Executive's hands in dealing with foreign countries. At best, the Nixon people felt, it might result in confusion in foreign chancelleries. At worst, it might hobble the execution of foreign policy and perhaps even interfere with the Paris peace negotiations. Democratic Senator Gale McGee, one of the resolution's few active opponents, said that it was "loaded with mischief-making...
...Charleston had seemed impossible to remedy. During the 100-day strike by nonprofessional black hospital workers, there were mass arrests, curfews, patrols by the National Guard, the threat of a sympathy strike that would have closed the port and the ever-present possibility of serious racial violence. Every attempt at settlement collapsed-until last week...
THIS REPORT to you this evening is presented as an interim report of progress by the City Manager for the purpose of placing into perspective the Housing Problem in the City and the action being undertaken by the City Managers Task Force on Housing in an attempt to define and overcome the obstacles to providing decent reasonable lousing for the citizens of Cambridge...
...play of this kind, women naturally have to stay out of the fore-ground. But Katharine (Roberta Maxwell), in a pink gown, and Alice (Patricia Elliott), in a pale but one, are delightful as the lady-in-waiting gives an English lesson to her French princess--with no attempt to disguise the scene's bawdy bilingual puns (Henry V is, as a matter of fact, the bawdiest of all the Histories). And Katharine is a charming model of modesty in the wooing scene...