Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King supporters feel the media is hounding the new administration and Murphy agrees, noting that the commission may signal an end to the witchhunt. "The press is trying to embarrass people," Murphy states. "It seems to be a legitimate electronic press and print media attempt to chase around people like public officials, but we'll try to protect against that." Secretary of State Michael Connolly, another strong proponent of the ethics statute, agrees with Murphy, adding "The press ought to address the question of ethics for themselves...
...emanation of a Romantic tradition, and in his case he used arguments made by Voltaire and Rousseau to buttress his condemnation of slavery. In Charles Chestnutt's work we see a literature of Realism, and in the work of Richard Wright we see aspects of Naturalism and, later on, attempts at existentialist ideas. In Toni Morrison we find a complex attempt at socio-psychological realism, which attempts to examine in somewhat clinical terms the nature of psychic dispossession, of which Frantz Fanon spoke so eloquently...
...hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof the literature...
With time running out, Mark Fidler dumped the puck into the Vermont zone in one final attempt to grab a victory without having to wait for the uncertainties of sudden-death overtime. While the Catamount defensemen studied for hourlies, Bethel simply picked up the puck after it bounced off the boards, closed in on the Vermont net, and rapped home a quickie from about 15 feet for only his sixth goal of the season...
...money, but desperate cries of anguish are rising from office workers unable to cope with all that electronic wizardry. Their complaints: being disconnected in midsentence, having a third party break in on a conversation or, worse, not being able to get through at all. Their solution: make a futile attempt at retrieving the call and slam down the receiver...