Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the case for the last three weeks, Harvard will have its back against the wall, as the icemen attempt 1) to avoid a losing season for the first time since the 1966-67 campaign, and first under Coach Billy Cleary and 2) to win a game without the services of the talented Hughes Brothers and winger Murray Dea, all of whom were suspended for the final game following the donnybrook with...
WHILE CERTAIN RISKS attend any attempt to read into a single sequence the essence of a feature-length film, one particular scene in Padre, Padrone (Italian for My Father, My Master) goes a long way towards capturing the purpose and theme of this film that dazzled the critics at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A portrait-type shot encompasses the entire family of a Sardinian peasant, Efisio Ledda (Omero Antonutti), seated in the waiting room of a local bank. Compelled to sell his recently inherited farmland in the face of low olive prices and a disastrous winter, the paterfamilias...
...attempt to meet that deadline, the ACSR will hold two meetings in each of the next two weeks...
Following two quick possession switches, Harvard spread out its offense with two minutes left in an attempt to gain one last shot. Stenhouse was called on a dubious five-second violation at 0:47, but Gary Ackerman saved his tap on the ensuing jumpball to maintain Harvard possession...
Grinspoon, author of a book on the psychological effects of marijuana said there was no evidence to support the theory that marijuana leads to more dangerous drugs. He referred to studies done by other physicians on the psychological effects of marijuana that attempt to disprove the idea that marijuana causes brain damage, psychosis, or chromosome damage...