Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before breaking out the champagne though, we should remember there were expected problems. The placekicking game remains inconsistent. George Arnold, whose kickoffs were almost picture perfect, was troubled from closer in, missing two of four point-after tries and barely lofting a 44-yd. field goal attempt...
...leave Viet Nam because it was a lost war; we left because it was a wrong war. To hint at anything else is a doomed attempt to hide from the shame that we should all feel in being part of such an atrocity. We should praise the Haydens for serving to remind us and keep us from further evils...
...Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws" -this is a demeaning term used only by whites-and though I have often been the object of sexism it wounds me deeply that TIME would stoop to racism in an attempt to make a joke. The Indian I portray in this film is no joke...
...Home at last," said Rafael Cancel Miranda, 49, as he stepped out of the plane, fist high in the air. Echoed a tearful Oscar Collazo, 67, who had stormed Blair House in an attempt to shoot and kill President Truman in 1950: "I am so happy to be in a place where I am not afraid to express my emotions." (His 45-year-old niece rushed to embrace him, apparently suffered a heart attack, and died minutes later on the way to a hospital.) A third man, Irving Flores Rodriguez, 54, declared that liberty "has to be conquered by blood...
George Arnold, a former varsity golfer and soccer player turned placekicker in the last two weeks, missed on the point-after attempt. Arnold, who hit his first PAT try nicely, had trouble with his short irons all day, hooking wide on two PATs, though he narrowly connected on the final kick, a low trajectory floater that split the uprights...