Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz had also been frustrated in every attempt to move the many parties in the Middle East toward peace -- and he seemed to blame Arab leaders far more than Israeli intransigence for his failures. His personal distrust of the Arabs stems from their regular rejection of his initiatives, such as the 1983 Lebanon accord, which was immediately scuttled by Syria. At the same time, his support for Israel, despite provocations like the Pollard spy affair, has been unflagging...
Harvard Coach John Dooley, in an attempt to condition his team, left his first line of Trotman, Tri-Captain Brita Lind and freshman Sandra Whyte out for long, tiring shifts. Alternating with a young second line of freshmen Ceci Clark, Lauren Messmore and senior Martina Albright, the attack had a hard time generating scoring opportunities...
Tonight at the Briggs Athletic Center (7:30 p.m. tipoff, 95.3 WHRB), Harvard (1-3) will use a similar strategy when it meets fast-breaking Holy Cross. Although the Crimson, an up-tempo squad itself, will not attempt to slow things down as drastically as Brandeis tried to do, it will want to keep the Crusaders from hitting triple digits...
...kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt to create a written form for Slavic: "He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird...
...gangs embrace a cold-blooded philosophy. Boasts a reputed member of New York's Vigilante gang, who was secretly videotaped by police while sipping champagne and explaining his trade: "We sell drugs and we kill." Often the victim is gunned down at close range in public, with little attempt to conceal the killer's identity. Witnesses who testify about such murders often become targets themselves. Indeed, overburdened police forces have had little success in breaking the power of the drug gangs, even when they have adopted systematic buy-and-bust tactics or resorted to the dragnet-style crackdowns pioneered...