Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Internationalizing Jerusalem will probably require fire power as well as will power. The Israeli government is moving its offices to the city, determined never to surrender, and the Arabs have announced they will repulse any attempt to take away their section...
...glance, that no man could write a book called "Here is New York" and have it mean anything. To talk sense about a city compassing 8,000,000 more or less neurotic individuals, 8,000,000 different dreams, and 8,000,000 secret vices would appear impossible and any attempt in that direction preposterous...
...attempt to accomplish this goal by office standards would be unsatisfactory the budget of a department were determined some combination of the number of its contractors and of students in its courses, the great variety which Harvard offers, and which considered by many one of its greatest strength would suffer drastically--if not be too destroyed. Also the next vacancy in any department could be summarily cancelled given to another department, instructors assistant professors could have no sense security at Harvard, and they would be quite to snap up permanent positions elsewhere...
...bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Movies produced or directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, National Velvet") are not likely to be commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of stiffness. The menacing events are pictured with such a reaching for poetic blandness that, by contrast, an energetic shot of the sheriff whipping up some scrambled eggs becomes a hardhitting, action-filled image...