Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...think, however," Bradley added, "that the administration ought to attempt to check the readjustment process by any conscious effort to increase government spending...
...long speech, Wearily mispronouncing words (he said "exubriance" for exuberance, "umanimity" for unanimity, "Lydia" for Lydda). When he reached the end without announcing recognition, the Labor benches groaned. The vote on a motion for adjournment was a vote for or against Bevin. Prime Minister Attlee, in a desperate effort to corral wavering Labor votes, made it a vote of confidence for or against the government. Even so, more than 50 Labor M.P.s abstained, and the vote, 283 to 193, was the narrowest majority the Labor government had ever had. Bevin looked relieved. Attlee was visibly jarred...
...have something," he said, "that I regret very much having to say . . . Tonight's issue will be our last one. We have made every effort to raise new capital, and get this paper refinanced, and it is just not possible." When Crum jumped down, rumpled, bespectacled Editor Joseph Barnes, flushed and close to tears, gritted out his thanks to the staff...
Lyons reminds the journalistic profession that its stock with the reading public has fallen far. "It will take a chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...