Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clutch Play II: With four minutes remaining in the first quarter, Brown took over on its own 24-yd. line following a botched field goal attempt. But Harvard cornerback Greg Belsher turned in the Crimson's second consecutive interception and returned the ball to the 11-yd. line. Three plays later, Mark Bianchi scored the squad's second touchdown on a 19-yd. split end reverse...
Four of the five Senators met for an hour with FHLBB head Edwin Gray on April 2, 1987. In a letter written to McCain last May, Gray referred to this unprecedented intervention as "tantamount to an attempt to subvert the regulatory process," and subsequently branded DeConcini a "consummate liar" for not admitting that he attempted to cut a deal for Keating. His charge was buttressed when the Arizona Republic published a confidential memo prepared by DeConcini's staff for the meeting listing Keating's bargaining positions...
...chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...
...Washington Times emphasizes scoops in an attempt to compete with the venerable Washington Post. But do such stories always deliver the truth...
...headquarters for playing the "numbers," an illegal lottery. Centering around the life of a barber, his wife--a social service worker, and a boy he takes on to help him in the shop, the film involves dealings with gangsters involved in the numbers game and a failed attempt to steal money from them and flee to Georgia...