Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a delay-of-game penalty, Brown quarterback Steve Kettelberger underthrew Keiron Bigby on a two-point conversion attempt...
Brown got the ball back with 38 seconds remaining and moved the ball to the Yale 34, but Chris Ingerslev's field goal attempt fell short...
Duryea, who had missed a 26-yd. field goal attempt in the first quarter, followed with a 30-yd. field goal to complete the scoring...
...rights of students and suggest more the atmosphere of a dictatorship than the freedom of a respected institution of learning. At the same time that Harvard was denouncing its students for not taking their protest to Washington and was praising President Bok for his political activity, it was also attempting to terrorize its students into silence at home. When that attempt failed, it summoned the protesters before Harvard's equivalent of the Star Chamber, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--a body assembled contrary to its own regulations requiring student representation, and which failed to fix or try charges...
...film starring brat packer Mickey Rourke as a hard-nosed New York detective out to expose the crooked dealings of the Chinese mafia, marks Director Michael Cimino's wobbly return to the silver screen after his cinematic catastrophe of 1982, the much-heralded Heaven's Gate. In a vain attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass of celluloid which might be more aptly titled...