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Woodward took occasion to warn Blackman about Lewis's drinking and urged him to `` try to keep him sober ''.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.
One ground of action certainly exists when fusillades of stray shots go over into West Berlin as Communist `` vopos '' try to gun down fleeing unarmed residents.
The rebels may try to seize what is left of the October harvest when the floods recede and the monsoon ends in November.
And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up.
`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who don't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''.
The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.
Southern whites themselves are realizing that they had been wrong in using violence to try to stop Negroes from claiming equal rights.
`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.
What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.
I try to give him as many normal experiences as possible.
An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.
If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.
The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.
With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.
They try to keep within the speed limits.
Russia has showed its intentions by exploding bombs in peace time to try to frighten the world.
We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.
The Americans, like yourself, take the fact for granted, try to be helpful, but don't ask questions.
But he told Wilson to `` go ahead and try ''.
How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.
he was to try to make no converts ; ;
`` I'll try ''.
As another Thanksgiving draws near, let us take time out from the often hectic pace of our lives to try and recapture the feelings that filled the hearts of the Pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving.
Once these conditions of international law are met, countries that try to run the blockade do so at their own risk.

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