Word: attempted
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SWAT was formed last spring after a student filed a gender discrimination complaint against the Fly Club. The group held its first-ever rally on Saturday in an attempt to dissuade those "punched" by the club from joining its ranks...
...words of Bush campaign spokesman David Sandor, an attempt by Dukakis to "move towards the center" at the Democratic convention made it "incumbent on us to define Dukakis...
...more leisurely pace than his rival and nibbling at Dukakis' base in New England. Dukakis was jetting across the country by day while giving a series of exhausting network interviews at night. By directing his newly sharpened populist message at mass audiences, Dukakis was making one last, game attempt to seize voters by the lapels and persuade them to think of him as a potential President...
...superpowers are in the midst of a second detente, more profound than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact that the peace movement, which only five years ago threatened to overthrow Western nuclear policy, has been eclipsed...
...Dees, an Alabama jury last year awarded $7 million to the late Beulah Mae Donald, whose son Michael was lynched in 1981. Jubilant last week, Dees nevertheless insisted he believes "the Klan has a right to exist," if not to harass. Adds Dees: "This is not just an attempt to put the Klan out of business." Maybe not, but at this pace, he is not going to leave them with the price of a sheet...