Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern art to the comic pages...
...next few years Spence's decision-makingpowers will come even more under scrutiny as hemust attempt to balance the immense timeconstraints which a major new fundraising campaignwill place on him with the never-ending daily workof the deanship...
...President brought more luck for the heavily-favored Crusaders than the home team. Harvard saw its attempt for a third touchdown fail on Grady's goal-line interception as Marine One made a pass over the Stadium...
...matchup between Stanford and the "Stanford of the East," the Harvard men's soccer team will attempt to return to its winning ways today at 3:30 at Ohiri Field. The Crimson (2-2) is reeling after Sunday's 7-2 shellacking by Indiana...
Russians often see this as an attempt to kick them out of the homes they have inhabited for generations. So they have been hitting back with strikes that, if they persist, could wreck the economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise...