Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...featured an almost believable attempt at giant-killing by the Jumbos, who came into the contest with a 6-3 record. Don Leach tapped a Ron Stewart curveball just over the left-center field fence in the top of the first to give Tufts a quick 2-0 lead...
...Baby Sitters by John Salisbury (Atheneum; $9.95). John Salisbury is the well-guarded nom de plume of a fortyish British historian, political writer and playwright-which adds spice to his first political thriller right from page 1. It is the story of an Orwellian attempt (in 1981) to turn Britain into a fascist state, led by a fanatical Muslim group riding high on Arab oil and abetted by some of England's leading politicians. The conspiracy is defused by Bill Ellison, a brilliant Fleet Street digger whose investigative team resembles the London Sunday Times's muckraking groups. Salisbury...
Close readers might also have blamed the Trib. Despite its attempt to look fresh, the paper more often looked merely gray, with a static layout and a paucity of eye-catching pictures. The Trib often seemed overloaded with wire copy and canned columnists, undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...
...bags were still full, but now there were two outs as third baseman Rick Pearce blooped a short pop up in front of first base. Dartmouth's Brad Blair couldn't come up with the glove save, and what's more missed on his attempt to tag Pearce, thus permitting the first Harvard run to score...
...necessarily offer a simplistic account of "the crisis of capitalism and the inevitability of the demise of an inherently exploitative system." In fact, the title of the talk is "The PCI and the Crisis of Italy's Political Economy." Emmerich's parochialism is evident in his assumption that any attempt to apply "Communist dogma" to a "real social situation" will be of merely quaint interest. If he can only see foreign class conflict and byzantine political plots in the current crisis in Italy, then perhaps Emmerich would be better off letting Napolitano speak for himself and should simply content himself...