Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several of the students said that activists should attempt to work with sympathetic administrators rather than embracing a confrontational action such as a sit-in or building takeover...
They said the boycott was a peaceful, legal attempt to force communist authorities to meet with them and discuss demands for a free press, an end to official corruption and other reforms...
Kingston's prose imitates--almost mocks--an era and its writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...Crimson (21-3 overall this year, 12-0 this spring), which missed the two inaugural Beanpot bouts, has taken home the 'Pot each of the last two years. Harvard will attempt to keep its stranglehold on the Beanpot championship today when it battles Boston College at Soldiers Field (10 a.m. kickoff...
Phillips, a three-year letterman at wide receiver in football and a four-year starter in basketball, says he will not attempt to follow in Bo Jackson's footsteps. If he makes it at either sport, the other will become a hobby at the playground, not professional, level...