Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Howell relieved Hershiser and walked Kevin McReynolds. He struck out Howard Johnson and had two strikes on Carter. The Mets catcher then blooped a short fly to center that John Shelby, playing deep, failed to catch with a diving attempt...
...Quayle tends to ramble--his sentences don't always parse," said Kalb. "Certainly his advisers have been working on the problems and will attempt to solve them before the debate." If, however, they fail, Kalb predicts that Quayle's lack of coherence and organization will substantially hurt his political chances...
Offering one-year fellowships to Black South Africans is nothing but an attempt to quiet pro-divestment complaints and make Harvard appear a bastion of altruism...
...real distinction in Joel Oliansky's script, as in Eastwood's direction, lies mostly in its refusals. Focusing on the last three months of Parker's life, starting with a suicide attempt and ending with his sweet- smiling death as he watched a TV variety show, it flashes forward and back within this period, as well as through times past, jaggedly riffing the contradictory themes of amiable self-destruction in life and fierce self- transcendence in art, making no attempt to resolve the mystery or the irony of their presence in the same human composition...
...properties. Sasso won, Dukakis lost. They met shortly afterward. Sasso was impressed, and they stayed in touch. In 1980 Sasso helped organize Ted Kennedy's challenge against Jimmy Carter and was an effective Kennedy field director in Iowa and New Jersey. Sasso then signed on for Dukakis' 1982 comeback attempt, helping create Mike II, the newly mellowed conciliator. Notes Alan Baron, a longtime Democratic strategist: "Sasso can deal with people who really dislike Dukakis." Sasso became the Governor's chief secretary, taking time off in 1984 to manage Geraldine Ferraro's ill-starred vice-presidential campaign. In Boston he used...