Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most noted of the charges of Communism--at which Shapley scoffed, "Of course not!"--came from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who denounced the conference as "an elaborate effort to disguise a Communist propaganda effort...
...original ballots were not counted by the official voting committee, but by three girls appointed by ex-President Joan Projansky '49 in an effort to keep the returns secret until a mass meeting the following...
...letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
...only a Picasso or Matisse could expect for a canvas. Almost instantly, the French had a name for the whole thing: le plan Marshall de la peinture. That meant that Frenchmen would take sides on the Hallmark Plan just as on ECA. Screamed the Communists: "Nothing but an effort to destroy our national independence...
Some 2,000 of Houston's wealthy and others forked over $42 a head to eat imported pate de foie gras in the Shamrock's Emerald Room, rub elbows with the notables, and tour the hotel which McCarthy had built in an effort to make Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria look like a lodging house...