Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a tightrope. There were gaps between rocks that had to be jumped. One slip and that would be it, you would be swept over the edge. Nor was there any way to search for a crossing up- or downstream. There were too many rocks to climb to even attempt to look. Which left the cliff crossing: impossible...
...retrospect I shouldn't have been so sure. Neither Johnnie nor the others made any attempt to help the two men. Afterward they told me not only were they chiefly concerned with getting themselves down safely, but if the two men weren't ready to help themselves, why should they waste any of their valuable energy on two immobile men. I like to think they would have helped me regardless. As it was I can probably be thankful I was alone and a girl and had made it across the stream...
Erica Rosenberg '81, a member of the committee on loans and grants, said giving a group money does not imply that RUS has endorsed its political views. It is "just an attempt to allow them to air those views," she added...
...order won on a number of ballots. California, for instance, made more types of murder punishable by death, and Oregon reinstated capital punishment for premeditated murder. But perhaps the referendum with the most bite was in Oregon. There voters approved an attempt to cut dental bills by allowing the state to license anyone with six months' training to fit and sell false teeth...
...meet somewhere in the middle of mediocrity to form their little ensemble. It is a measure of just how careless the raptures of cynicism are that Avildsen tries to pass off an ancient Newark concert hall as Lincoln Center, which it in no way resembles. Of course, if you attempt to foist off a romance as silly as this one, developing it in a totally banal fashion, then you must believe that the public will accept almost anything. Given Rocky's record, this is an understandable belief, but one rather expects Slow Dancing's performance...