Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted a more realistic one--to occupy the storage lot, to cost the state of New Hampshire as much as we could, and to get as much publicity as possible. Just getting arrested hadn't worked. Three Mile Island hadn't made enough people think. We had to attempt to stop it ourselves, and we would do it by our methods--peaceful occupation--and not theirs...
...your schools," as Rock and Roll High School makes it seem. Their songs are hymns to pure energy, and their movie ought to be more tightly-paced, faster-rhythmed. Rock and Roll High School smothers the Ramones with a thick glue-snort of T.V.-style jokes and befuddles any attempt to understand their spirit...
Nothing could have been less auspicious for the start of a bold, face-to-face powwow in Moscow between China and the Soviet Union aimed at patching up some of their longstanding differences. The meeting was the first attempt in 16 years at wide-ranging political talks between the world's two most powerful Communist countries. Still, from the moment the ten-man Chinese delegation flew into Sheremetyevo Airport, both sides tried to put the best face on matters...
...country International Monetary Fund, another step may be taken to dethrone the dollar as the world's chief reserve currency, and replace it with a collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there are some $225 billion in dollars in foreign central bank vaults and $500 billion more in private hands outside...
...what our choices were: "Back in March and April the Administration had had freedom of choice in reacting to events in Cambodia. If it had decided not to encourage, let alone to arm Lon Nol, it could have compelled either the return of Sihanouk or, at least, an attempt, by Lon Nol, to preserve the country's flawed neutrality. This would probably have meant a government dominated by Hanoi and at the very least it would have allowed the Communists continued use of [the port of] Sihanoukville and the sanctuaries...