Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this summer, before I came back to school, the people in my town got together and held a prayer ceremony for me in the Native American Church--which is an attempt to combine Christianity with the Navajo culture. Although I am not a member of the church, the ceremony was a gesture which I accepted from the people because it was their way to support me in coming back to school here. All through the night people sat around the fire in a hogan singing, praying and chanting with the drums. Old people sat up all night long praying...
Tenants of a Harvard-owned cooperative house at 8 Mellen St. plan to oppose in court the University's attempt to evict them by December...
...small band of protesters outside the hotel charged that the convention was nothing more than an attempt to lend respectability to Moon's cause. Their suspicion is well-founded...
...Harvard indoor track team will attempt to change its past image as a squad which, despite its great potential, never seems to make it to the top when the season opens today at 6 p.m. in the ITT against much-improved...
...watch Paradise Alley, with its tried and contrived plot and its painfully obvious and ineffective attempt to manipulate the audience's emotions, you realize that Stallone simply lacks the intelligence to make a good movie. He cannot penetrate beyond cliches...