Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below the ocean floor, the riggers than began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit. At a point during the withdrawal, the drilling "mud," which is constantly pumped into the well to maintain pressure, became dangerously inadequate for the job. The well blew. An initial attempt to cap the hole was successful, but that led to a tremendous buildup of pressure. The expanding mass widened a fissure, and the released gas and oil bubbled and boiled through the crack and up 700 ft. to the surface. Essentially, when the fateful fissure occurred, Union was operating below...
Last week yet another Miami-bound Eastern Airlines flight was forced to fly to Havana, the ninth American plane to be commandeered so far this year; on the same day another attempt was aborted when two youths were fooled into capture. They were convinced by the pilot that the plane did not have enough fuel to reach Cuba, and when the jet landed at Miami, FBI agents arrested the pair. Two days later, a Colombian airliner en route to Medellín, Colombia, was taken over and forced to fly to Santiago de Cuba by a Colombian airport guard...
When Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy in 1944, the French Resistance there cut all telephone lines to Paris in an attempt to hamstring the Wehrmacht's response. The Germans, however, failed to realize that the lines had been put out of action, so the story goes, for Paris has always been aloof from the rest of France. For cen turies, the capital has been the nation's center of culture, business and politics...
...would-be as sassin at the cosmonauts' parade in the Kremlin last month. In a country that is purposefully fed warnings of constant plots, the official Soviet dismissal of the gunman as a schizophrenic has not put the Russians at ease. Twice in So viet history, assassination attempts have served as a pretext for savage repression. The unsuccessful attempt on Lenin in 1918 triggered the Red Terror, in which thousands of Russians fell be fore Bolshevik firing squads; the killing of Politburo Member Sergei Kirov-carried out in 1934 on secret orders from Stalin - set off the great purges...
...September 1967 speech to Congress, Laird's predecessor, Robert McNamara, described Sentinel as a "thin" system intended to meet the threat of a missile attack from China through 1975. No system, McNamara said, could be adequately effective against Russia's sophisticated arsenal, and he opposed any attempt to develop one. Russia would respond only by developing its offensive missiles until they can out-number or elude our anti-missiles, launching the crazy spiral of an arms race...