Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students currently being punched also see the role of the clubs as a purely social one and attend club events in an attempt to decide whether they like the group of people...
...this attempt, Restic will first have to establish a running game to compliment the Brian Buckley air show. "Once we do that," Restic said before departing for Ithaca, "we can open up with some play-pass action...
...actually a paean to Rooseveltian progressivism. The Land of Oz, where "we get up at noon, go to work at two we're done, jolly good fun," is actually the world's most advanced welfare state. The lushness of the make-believe countryside, filmed in a beautiful early attempt at color, contrasts starkly with the monochromatic depression reality of dustbowl Kansas. Oz, of course, is really FDR: he can't really do the miraculous things people say he can, but he can give them faith in themselves. And that, the film suggests, is all you really need...
...Cambridge yesterday to promote her new book, "American Journal: The Events of 1976," Drew said she writes in journal form not in an attempt to go back and drain the campaign of its excitement, but to put in writing "how it looked, how it felt...
...dedicated: during some of their forays, they maneuver their small boats so as to interpose themselves between the whaling ships and the whales, and stand there while explosive harpoons aimed at the whales whiz past their heads. They lecture the crews of the ships in Russian in an attempt to persuade them of the wrongfulness of their acts. But with little success: in one case a captain ordered the crew to drag through the ice-cold water an ecologist who had grabbed onto the cable the whaler was using to haul a whale up to the boat. "Voyages" was filmed...