Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bryant says the most elaborate robbery attempt occurred in 1971, when an intrepid would-be thief stayed in the building after closing hours and climbed out onto the roof of the Widener rooms housing one of the few Gutenberg Bibles in the world. The man broke through two skylight windows, lowered himself into the chamber and removed the extremely heavy volumes from their case. Bible in hand, he began to climb the knotted rope, but midway up, he fell to the concrete floor. The robber's moans brought one of the night janitors running. "He was terribly injured...
...sought relevant files on secret recruiting under the Freedom of Information Act last year but the courts deemed them non-releasable (Gardels v. CIA). In an affidavit, however, the agency did reveal it had covert relations with faculty members. Now Brown University is applying pressure to Turner in an attempt to end covert recruitment...
...international agreement to lower tariffs signed in Geneva last week, by 21 industrialized non-Communist countries represents an attempt to stimulate world trade although the effectiveness of the pact remains uncertain, trade experts said yesterday...
...could think of this as a last-ditch attempt to shore up international trade, but until it goes into effect it is too early to judge its impact," Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday...
Public knowledge is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Any attempt to suppress it is nothing but a crude, and ultimately hopeless, attempt at official censorship...