Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort of rational order? Can the force of our will exercise any efficacy over our ultimate destiny? Or are we compelled to function as best we can in a universe governed...
...Lincoln, the moaning continues, he was a "self-made myth." Those school yard taunts about his height haunted him. The Civil War was simply his attempt to overcome a deep-seated fear that he was inadequate...
...attempt to qualify additional swimmers from both teams for Easterns, Harvard and Cornell swam an alternate program which included such uncommon events as a 1650 freestyle and a 400 medley relay (determined by the results of four individual races...
...around, on or off the stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button-down, close-cropped, low-key look, Liberace came to understand that in the heartland where he found his audiences, less remained less and only more was more...
Aquino's overwhelming victory was all the more remarkable because it followed several weeks of political unrest. On Jan. 22 a violent clash between soldiers and pro-land-reform demonstrators left at least a dozen dead. A week later, a tense three-day coup attempt ended when rebel soldiers surrendered. The President's margin of victory forced even her most bitter opponents to concede that it represented the popular will. "We accept the verdict of the Filipino people," said former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who led the rightist opposition under the banner of the Nationalista Party. He added...