Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

She was occupying herself in an attempt to write an article about the variety of houses that they had rented abroad.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

And if it was not an individual who was in the dock, why was the Trial, as we shall observe later, all but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend ''??

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

It was merely an attempt to frighten her.

Besides, there was something hysterical and silly, something almost childish about an attempt to frighten her.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

Pete Ward was sent in for House and, after failing in a bunt attempt, popped to Howser on the grass back of short.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.

Von Strahlenberg's classification was the first attempt at classification of a large number of languages some of which are Altaic.

No attempt is made by Ptolemy to weld into a single scheme ( a-la-Aristotle ), these independent predicting-machines.

Another attempt will be made this year in New Orleans to resume the program.

An attempt should be made to see if electricity, in its most latent stage, has any action on the magnet as such ''.

However while in his cell awaiting trial for theft, Barco, in a fit of apprehension, made an attempt to take his own life.

In general, it appears that trustees and board members attempt to represent the public interest in their administration of educational policy, and this is made easier by the fact that the dominant values of the society are middle-class values, which are generally thought to be valid for the entire society.

Here no attempt is made, first to determine out-of-pocket or marginal costs and then to superimpose on these costs `` reasonably distributed '' residues of total costs.

In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another's problems.

As usual, he made no attempt to get in touch with Carmine G. De Sapio, the Manhattan leader.

At the very moment that every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that ship operators set freight rates.

It is greatly to Berman's credit that he made no attempt to outdo Ray Bolger.

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

He considered the war a blatant attempt to extend slavery and asked if the country was made up of " a people bent on conquest, on getting the golden treasures of Mexico into our hands, and of subjugating foreign peoples?

* 1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.

The attempt itself has been made an offence in India, as in other states.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

Through his allies, Johnson maneuvered among the senators in an attempt to secure a favorable vote ; for example, a pledge was made to Sen. James W. Grimes to install a more highly respected War Secretary and to cease interference with Congress ' Reconstruction efforts.

When he was staying in Nicaea, his cousins, who had been living there, made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.

There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian war and made a first attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for union with the crown.

The children made little attempt to mix with others outside the parsonage, but relied on each other for friendship and companionship.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three ( although it is clear he also became muddled ), and his opinion is followed here.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

In 1892, a short-lived rule was added crediting runners with stolen bases if a base runner advanced on a fly out, or if they advanced more than one base on any safe hit or attempted out, providing an attempt was made by the defense to put the runner out.