Word: attempted
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Stoltzfus said the vigil was "not an attempt to alienate the church administration because they are not the ones we want to target...
...think the attempt to call attention to the divestment issue is important," said Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinty Gordon D. Kaufman. Kaufman discussed the complexity of the South Africa problem in a speech Saturday...
Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...There's been an attempt to push women out of the debate," Ehrenreich said. "Abortion really is a women's issue...
...after police--some of them from Cambridge--arrested, and in some cases, beat the students who had taken over University Hall, Sullivan received threats on his life. While no attempt was ever made to kill him, he says he took the threats seriously enough that he and his family left town immediately...