Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he is 15, Jeremy sees his reflection in a beach house and, runs toward the cliff in a fit of self-loathing, and jumps. His attempt at suicide is a failure, but he manages to break his leg in many places and put an end to his athletic career...
...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
While no one has proved conclusively that Pons and Fleischmann are wrong, it seems likely that they jumped to a hasty conclusion based on incomplete research. Scientists in Japan and Switzerland announced that their own tests had convinced them the original work was flawed. An attempt by the Harwell Laboratory in Britain to confirm the discovery has also produced nothing, even though Fleischmann himself checked the experiments...
Social Analysis 10, that wonderful utility-maximizing world where all markets equilibrate and labor-market discrimination is impossible, claims to attempt a value-free analysis of economics...
...students chanted slogans and handed literature to faculty members entering the building for their 4 p.m. meeting. The protesters formed a ring around the hall but made no attempt to block any entrances...