Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong current of political expediency runs below the surface of Congress's push for civil rights for the aged. Legislators could attempt to use the new forced retirement law to eliminate pressure for the reform of the Social Security system, Later retirements would help curtail the drain on Social Security as well as ease the burden on private sector pension funds...
...that point, Crimson left fullback John Sanacore came out of nowhere to attempt a sliding tackle on a semi-breakaway by a URI forward. Sanacore just tipped the ball, and sent it spinning toward the corner of the goal, with net-minder Herold sprawled helplessly on the slippery turf after trying to switch directions...
...Indiana, Mobil and Gulf-struck an above-the-battle pose and rarely got down into the pit themselves. Said David Foster, executive vice president of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, the producer-sponsored lobby that operates on an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000: "To attempt to lobby this issue on the concerns of the producers of natural gas is an impossibility. When it's your customers who are saying they don't want to pay controlled prices, that has an effect. The bacon was carried by the people who use natural...
Capp, who grew up Dogpatch poor in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., originated Li'I Abner in 1934. It was the first humorous strip to attempt serious political satire and was an almost instant success, appearing in roughly 900 newspapers by the late 1960s. At his peak, Capp earned more than $500,000 a year from the strip and its numerous spinoffs, including a Broadway musical and two movies...
...Modern Art. Four years in the making, organized by two leading Cézanne specialists, Professors John Rewald and Theodore Reff, in troika with MOMA's director of the department of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, it is the sort of show which very few museums could even attempt: 124 oils and watercolors, including nearly every major painting that has been preserved from Cézanne's last working decade, 1895-1906. Its catalogue, with nine essays by various experts, is a landmark in Cézanne studies. There has never been a Cézanne show like...