Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover in the sturdy consistency of his mother and the recklessness of his drunkard father a source of self-knowledge and self-mastery...
Harvard drew first blood and looked well on its way to its thirteenth straight triumph in the second inning when Charlie Santos-Buch led off with a bunt attempt that Columbia third baseman Ed Backus muffed. Santos-Buch moved to third when Tommy Joyce's grounder found its way between Bart Purcell's legs, and then loped home on Rich Trembowicz's single to left to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
Wolf said yesterday "the caucuses are an attempt to revitalize the grassroots action in the party...
...There's no attempt here to do anything to change the intercollegiate program," he said, adding that even the new athletic director would be able to do very little to break the control that the varsity coaches and athletic recruiters in the admissions office now exert on the athletic program...
...Tucson is Giangreco's second attempt to parody a Boston newspaper. Last December he published The Fake Paper, a take-off on The Real Paper that Giangreco said was "immensely popular...