Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...striving to reunite the Divinity School's preachers and academic historians, Thiemann told about 250 theologians and school supporters at the Memorial Church ceremony that he will attempt to give the graduate institution the prominence it held during Harvard's early years, when theology was central to the liberal arts education...
Wingback George Sorbara even got into the act, tossing an interception on his only pass attempt--a halfback option. Overall, Crimson quarterbacks threw nine interceptions in 30 pass attempts, while completing only 11 tosses to the correct team...
Families have not completely seized the sitcom field this fall. ABC's Sledge Hammer!, about a trigger-happy cop who talks to his gun, is an earnest but lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
...hunger that accepts no substitutes, neither promises of material progress nor safe and comforting lies, and will overcome the most intricate and comprehensive web of censorship. Although the Marcos regime effectively controlled the Philippine media, there was never a period when some kind of "alternative press" did not attempt to report the facts and challenge the misinformation published by the government. In the later stages of the regime, such alternative press took the form of small newspapers that operated from day to day under the constant threat of closure or arrest or paramilitary terrorism. But throughout the whole Marcos regime...
...country on Sept. 21, 1972 (when Marcos declared martial law). The people did not protest the shutdown of the media, and there was nothing the media could do about it. But from the assassination of (my husband) Ninoy (in August 1983) onwards, the people demonstrated massively against any attempt by the government to shut down the alternative press and (the Roman Catholic station) Radio Veritas. The media did not restore democracy in the Philippines, the people did. They made the revolution and protected their media...