Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard came close a couple of times against the Tribe, though. In the final minute of the first quarter, Crimson place-kicker Andy Maretz had a shot at a 42-yd. field goal. But kicking into a stiff breeze, Maretz's attempt landed harmlessly in the front of the endzone...
...attempt to capture the symbolism of the quadrennial world Olympics, Mike N. Druckman '87, chairman of Leverett's version, marked the beginning of the games by dressing up in a toga and carrying a bic lighter through the Leverett House dining hall...
What was extraordinary was that the report on the hijack attempt, which took place in the city of Ufa, 740 miles east of Moscow, was carried on Soviet television. Apparently part of Mikhail Gorbachev's new "open" information policy, which has come to include reports of accidents and disasters, the broadcast alluded to the Soviet Union's drug problem, which government officials until recently have tried to play down...
...indeed, one of "the saviors of American liberalism." He is an exciting leader, with strong beliefs, courage and conviction and has infused new excitement into an old political faith. Cohen sounds like a writer trying to say something unusual for the sake of being different; in making the attempt, he belies an ignorance of New York politics and Mario Cuomo. Marc A. Bodnick...
...fast, then, is to save lives. It is an attempt to bring the consciousness of suffering to this country. It is an enormous burden for the fasters to carry. And it is a gamble...