Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airspace northeast of Murmansk and was intercepted by Soviet fighters from the area's anti-aircraft defense system. For two hours, said Tass, the airliner ignored their orders to land. Premier Aleksei Kosygin was quoted as saying that the Korean jet took "evasive action" instead, in a vain attempt to get away. Finally, reported Tass, the plane came down and landed on a frozen lake near the town of Kem in the Karelian republic. Two passengers were killed and 13 injured, Kosygin told the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and a wing of the plane was severely damaged...
...said yesterday he decided not to work out of Massachusetts Hall because his attempt to enter his office late Monday afternoon had produced an incident he did not wish repeated...
...state-subsidized theater in a large industrial city with very high unemployment, and yet for the last eight seasons we've had a marvelous rapport between the actors and the audience. There are 15 actors, all paid the same, all the same age--there's no attempt at having a juvenile, a leading man, an ingenue, or anything like that. All the plays we do have to fit that number; if there are 30 parts, then we combine two or three into one role," Havergal says. The company performs mostly classsical work, much of it re-shaped and re-interpreted...
Lewis M. Horowitz, co-chairman of the coalition of residents opposed to the power plant, said yesterday the protest march and the "people's injunction" were an attempt to convince Harvard to voluntarily stop constructing the plant...
...doesn't. Because his confusion represents more, much more, than merely a delayed adolescence. It represents the attempt to lead a life that embraces many of the disparate elements of American culture, a life that seeks to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and a life that struggles, always struggles, to maintain perspective...