Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not so much an attack on the United States as an attempt to explain how those 50 who left in December could make the decision they made. Some were people on the fringes, unable to attain the standard of living that lured them here. Some were frustrated artists who, no longer restrained by government, found they were restrained by an inhospitable market that provided no buyers for their work. Some were plain scared and homesick...
Then Jim Barton, the nation's leading free throw shooter last year and now shooting almost 88 percent from the line, came up to attempt the two-shot technical...
...hotel rooms. That failed to prove that King was under the influence of Communists but provided a lode of scandalous data about King's philandering. The FBI wasted no time in circulating gamy samples of the recordings to Government officials, friendly journalists and even King's wife in an attempt to persuade King to withdraw from an active role in the movement...
...President's opponents are using the ballot to muster support against the regime. Communists oppose the proposed constitution because it does not, they say, redress social injustices. Juan Ponce Enrile, who was fired as Defense Minister last November after allegedly orchestrating a coup attempt and is widely thought to want the presidency, opposes ratification because, he says, Aquino's abolition of Marcos' constitution undermined the legitimacy of her own rule. He calls Aquino the "new dictator...
...couple. She claimed to want no more children of her own. After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They paid the center $10,000. But during delivery, Whitehead told the court last week, she decided she could not go through with it. "Something took over," she said...