effort = "to try to obtain by effort; to obtain by effort"

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN again, October 30, 2012: "

"They're trying to effort someone from the hospital to tell me if things
are up and running. If we get someone on the line, of course, we'll share
the information with you. "

To find by making a notable effort .

JL

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > And from the contexts, it seems like "extorting" or "extracting". Â Or
> > another, bleeped F(orting)-word, because they hadn't succeeded?
> >
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> Talking head interviewing the leading lady of the cast of the
> tres-sexy-even-for-its-day musical, "Oh, Calcutta!", on Sacramento,
> CA, local PR:
>
> TH. "Do you consider the kinds of things that you do in the play to be
> risque, even erotic?"
>
> LL. Why, yes, I do. In fact, I think that, if I were a man, I'd get a
> hard on, too."
>
> [Bleeep!]
>
> A miss is as good as a mile.
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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