an unsuccessful attempt
21an attempt on someone's life — an act of trying to kill someone : a usually unsuccessful effort to kill someone Police report that there has been an attempt on the actor s life. Someone made an attempt on her life. [=someone tried to kill her] • • • Main Entry: ↑attempt …
22List of unsuccessful assassinations — This is a list of assassinations that have failed. They are arranged in order of the targets. The names of failed assassins then follow.* Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldives president Mohamed Murshid January 8, 2008 * George W. Bush, U.S. president –… …
23failed attempt — highly unsuccessful experiment, experience that did not work out as planned …
24rodee — Unsuccessful attempt to make a pass or to pick someone up Did you hear about John last night? He pulled a rodee on this chick, and she turned him down flat …
25rodee — Unsuccessful attempt to make a pass or to pick someone up Did you hear about John last night? He pulled a rodee on this chick, and she turned him down flat …
26boss-shot — Unsuccessful attempt …
27United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
28HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
29Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
30arctic — arctically, adv. /ahrk tik/ or, esp. for 7, /ahr tik/, adj. 1. (often cap.) of, pertaining to, or located at or near the North Pole: the arctic region. 2. coming from the North Pole or the arctic region: an arctic wind. 3. characteristic of the… …
