Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there--people stumbling around, people eating huge amounts of food due to "munchies," stoned people in a car swallowing all their drugs to prevent the police from finding the evidence, innumerable puns on the word "shit"--and they are run by you time and again in a desperate attempt to get laughs. Yok yok. It turns out that making jokes about grass is much the same as smoking it--too much and you fall asleep...
...been a special charge of TIME since the magazine began in 1923 and Co-Founder Henry Luce wrote that religious currents were "more important perhaps than Farm Blocs or youthful novelists, [and] are lost sight of by the reader of the daily press. TIME will at least make an attempt to follow them...
...Nyerere believes Smith will get down to serious bargaining only after he is convinced that "he cannot count on support from the U.S. and Britain." Two recent events, however, may have reassured Smith that in the final pinch the West will come to his aid: 1) a recent congressional attempt to require the U.S. to lift sanctions against Rhodesia by the end of 1978; and 2) disclosures that past British governments looked the other way when oil companies violated a ban on petroleum shipments to Rhodesia. Nyerere professes to be unconcerned about the past. "The international community can see what...
...been staggeringly large. Since the spring of 1975, around 140,000 Laotians have fled to refugee camps in Thailand-in recent months, most of them by paying $150 to secure a nighttime passage on boats plying the Mekong River. Although Pathet Lao soldiers often shoot at those who attempt the crossing (four died in one incident two weeks ago), an estimated 2,500 to 4,000 people seek refuge in Thailand every month...
...This is the year a number of Great Society liberals like Minnesota's Don Fraser unexpectedly found themselves trudging the gangplank. This is the year the "barren ground" liberals like Mike Dukakis and Jerry "Jarvis" Brown are discovering precious little sustenance from the earth they scorched in a vain attempt to hold off the advancing barbarians. This is the year the swell for labor law reform hit a crosswind; the year natural gas deregulation came in a gusher. This is the year of The Great Temptation to trumpet a Right-Wing Trend. Well, get thee behind me, Satan. Because this...