Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed it marked a startling new beginning for students at this school--proof that students can make themselves heard, even in the massive bureaucracy at the center...
...there were early signs that his financial wizardry was getting him into trouble. After an attempt by ISC to take over Colorado-based Holly Sugar Corp. in 1967, the Government indicted Kenneally's partner in the scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...
...race that officially counted was the second attempt of the afternoon. The Williams coxswain, unable to negotiate the first bridge with company under the arches, steered into the Radcliffe varsity. Threee oars splintered in the collision and the contest restarted nearly one hour and many frozen fingers later...
...direction. Her Dear Friend was no better, periodically contorting her facial muscles in expressions suggestive of profound empathy. I marveled at the speed with which, after speaking at such length in her flatulent way about the arrogated rights of the individual, she could forget her own preachings and attempt to make me into a stereotype...
...organization which addresses substantive issues, one finds politics. Persons familiar with the first Assembly can attest to this. What open political parties do is acknowledge this fact but attempt to bring politics above board. Politics in itself is not evil; politics that takes place behind closed doors most certainly...