Word: attempted
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...teach Afro-American Literature because I am trained in literature, and because Afro-American literature is the literature of my people, one of the most oppressed nationalitites in the world today. I make no apology for this categorization. Witness the profound alienation of Afro-American peoples, the malicious attempt to reduce us to beings only concerned with the satisfaction of animal desires, the undisguised genocidal practices to which Afro-Americans are subjected daily (over 50 per cent of the U.S. prison population is black), the gross unemployment of our youth (over 60 per cent unemployed) while billions go toward arms...
...that the United States will liberalize its immigration policy. The proposed erection of a six-and-a-half-mile-long fence at El Paso, which would only have diverted immigrants to the other 1993 miles of unfenced border, was more an instance of window-dressing than of a sincere attempt to slow unlawful migration of impoverished Mexicans. INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo, whose grandparents were Mexican immigrants, has instituted policies more sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant. Not only has he reduced to half the personnel working to seize Mexicans living illegally in the United States, he has also upgraded...
This was Hackett's first serious attempt since early-season to break the nine-minute barrier (he went 9:05 in December), and the sophomore admitted afterwards to being "slightly disappointed...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Co-captain Glenn Fine sank four crucial free throws in the last 12 seconds of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to stave off a tremendous comeback attempt by the Elis and preserve the Crimson basketball team's second consecutive one-point victory in two nights, 80-79, here at the Payne-Whitney...
Every player on the team, though, turned in a solid two-way performance. All four lines broke into the scoring column (the Crimson's highest total of the season); and the squad's collective back-checking precluded any attempt by Colgate to make a game...