Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attended when you fixed the hour," cried John L. Lewis. "We departed when weariness affected your pleasure. Our effort . . . has been in vain...
...Jinnah might change his mind-as he has so often before. But if neither gave way, the British Cabinet Mission would probably impose a constitution on India despite the threats of civil war. When a British official in Delhi last week said, "This is the most important British diplomatic effort of the century," he had in mind the danger that a failure to settle the Indian problem would keep the whole East in turmoil and disturb international relations throughout the world by presenting Rus sia with an opportunity to increase her influence among Asia's people...
...book concerns the murder and trial (De Marigny wants the case reopened); the other half mostly tells how he "walked in and out of the lives of many women. . . ." Sample aphorisms: "In Europe women take good manners for granted. In America they take them to bed"; "It is no effort to make American women happy." Characteristic anecdotes: how De Marigny picked up Brenda Frazier in a hotel grill (he made her come to his table); how De Marigny beat the Duke of Windsor's time with Madeleine Carroll...
...Braves might make the first division if Billy Southworth's methodical magic worked and Mort Cooper's ailing arm got well. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seemed to be heading for the lower half. The biggest little effort would come from the Phillies, managed by onetime Yankee Ben Chapman. They had corralled every available has-been from both leagues, to try to get out of the cellar...
...effort to make the programs as flexible as possible, the Committee will allow a wide range in the choice of courses, and some students may be sent to Washington between their first and second years for "interneships" in relevant governmental agencies...