Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with its attempt...
...battles have ended in victory. She tried and failed to persuade her boss, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, to make air bags mandatory in all new cars beginning in 1981 but had to settle for a 1982 to 1984 deadline. Claybrook later lost out even more embarrassingly in her attempt to tighten braking standards for tractor-trailers. She was testifying before a congressional committee on her opinion even as Adams was disagreeing with her at a press conference...
However, in an attempt to placate the wrath received from high school students and their parents, the College Board (administrators of the SAT) has followed the Law School Council's lead. This fall, for the first time ever, the board published a complete sample SAT test along with explanations of the answers...
...enough (12 saves, 28 overall) and the Terrier defense just careful enough to prevent Harvard from damaging their unblemished record. And when Todd Johnson slid his third goal of the night 80 feet into an empty net to make it 8-5, blemished only was Harvard's aborted comeback attempt...
...lead, Hackett stepped up to the blocks for his specialty, the 1000-yd. freestyle. As the swimmers left the blocks, one jumped the gun, but--unable to hear the recall shots--they continued into the first turn. When one of the lap counters made a valiant attempt to stop Hackett, he cut the Olympian's foot open in the process. The meet stopped while Hackett was taped up by the trainers. Hackett then proceeded to reel off a smoking 9:05 in the race (certainly the fastest time in the nation so far this season), lopping a mere 30 seconds...