Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This tragedy came about notwithstanding the efforts of our administration to stop the return of Mr. Aquino when there were confirmed warnings that there was going to be an attempt against his life. Unfortunately, Mr. Aquino did not listen to our pleas. We are at the point where we are waiting for the results. I am afraid that any comments on the trial might be considered improper on my part...
Even in Africa's Sudan, among the Dinka tribesmen, basketball was known as a logical career for a 91-in. man. Of confused age, though thought to be 23, Bol had a traumatic introduction to the game six years ago. Goaded by a cousin to attempt a dunk, he broke several teeth on the rim. In the spirit of his 7-ft. 10-in. grandfather, a chieftain with some 80 children, though against the wishes of his 6-ft. 8-in. father, a cattleman who died lonely for his only son, Bol inevitably made his way to a local team...
Task force members said a principal reason for the nascent attempt at rules regulation is to provide Massachusetts's cities and towns--which by the state supreme court ruling can now ban or regulate the use of hazardous substances--with a regulatory framework in which to act if they want...
...Leverett depended primarily on Lennon, Mather also counted on one man to carry the team. But unlike Lennon, who played just offense, big Joe Kenary supplied almost all of his team's offense and defense: he picked off a pass from Peterson, he prevented a Leverett two-point conversion attempt at the one, and he powered his way for 24 yards on one Mather possession...
...ATTEMPT to portray Cline in the most realistic manner possible, Lange has totally changed not only her physical appearance (lucky for her that she's a natural blonde), but her voice as well, dropping it as much as two full octaves in order that her soprano speaking voice match up with Cline's whiskey-throated contralto. Unfortunately for Lange, realism in this context is more often than not equivalent to boredom--six scenes of Cline trying to pull together the threads of her life after either an out-and-out dogfight with second husband Charlie Dick (Ed Harris...