Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth could have won the game late in the fourth quarter after a Goodwin field-goal attempt hit the cross bar and bounced back onto the field. Dartmouth drove to the Princeton 40 before a 12-yard sack and an interception in the final minute sealed the Princeton victory. IVY STANDINGS Team W L T HARVARD 1 0 0 Penn 1 0 0 Princeton 1 0 0 Yale 1 0 0 Brown 0 1 0 Columbia 0 1 0 Cornell 0 1 0 Dartmouth...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...
...Henry Miller. For if she succeeds in luring you southward to the exotically furnished SoHo loft she shares with an artist (Linda Fiorentino, who is also exotically furnished), the chances are excellent that you will shortly find yourself racing penniless through a rainstorm, trying to cope with a suicide attempt and a subway-fare increase, the consequences of a broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours...
...officers, took an unexpectedly violent turn. The rebellion was crushed within twelve hours, but it left five people dead and 60 injured. Worse, Thailand's image as an increasingly stable semidemocracy in Southeast Asia may have been tarnished. Said Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, whose government withstood another military takeover attempt only four years ago: "I don't agree with this method of solving the country's problems...
...when both the Prime Minister and General Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thailand's Supreme Commander, were out of the country. Before his departure, however, Prem had been informed by Thai intelligence that a coup might occur and alerted loyalist military brass. By 10 a.m. on the day of the coup attempt, an estimated 500 rebels found themselves squaring off against more than 1,000 loyalist troops near First Division headquarters, which also houses the army's main radio station. Without warning, rebel tanks and machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman Neil Davis, an Australian, and William Latch...