Word: attempted
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Crimson trainer Theresa "T.K." Kennedy, who led Sasner off of the field, said that the Princeton player "just ran right into [Sasner] with no attempt to play the ball...
...evidence it is being espoused in these texts." The common legal definition of a religion specifies belief in a superior being, which would seem to be the very antithesis of secular humanism. Before the plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case last week, they called expert witnesses in an attempt to resolve this apparent contradiction. University of Virginia Sociologist James D. Hunter characterized secular humanism as the functional equivalent of a religion, and, by implication, subject to the law. Hunter, however, subsequently acknowledged that the phrase functional equivalent is absent from the Constitution's First Amendment, which forbids the establishment...
Hindawi denied he tried to blow up the plane. He claimed he was the victim of an Israeli intelligence attempt to discredit Syria and said he was paid $250,000 in Damascus to smuggle contraband from Britain to Tel Aviv...
...event is considerably smaller than the three-day Model U.N., which is held at Harvard in December. Consisting of three mock Security Councils, the Model United Nations Day allows discussion of South Africa and Nicaragua in an attempt to "give experience in Model United Nations to students who either couldn't afford to come to the larger conferences or who don't have the experience to feel comfortable with bigger groups," said David Araten '87, president of the Harvard International Relations Council, the non-partisan political forum which sponsored the conference...
...FOOD GUIDE is a sensible, crisply-written survey of all that fast-food restaurants have to offer. Fortunately, its co-authors are both experts in nutrition and not a pair of glazed-eyed granola freaks. They recognize that fast-food places can't be avoided. Their book is an attempt to educate the general reader on what's good and what's bad in the fast-food world and how to tell the difference. But as they amply document, most of the gristle served in fast-food joints isn't just bad--it's also...