Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very very tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active Communists"... who had been "carefully indoctrinated before coming to Harvard," are shameful and gratuitously provocative. Your resort to guilt by association (both with the Communist Party and with one's parents--all in one remark!), your attempt to stigmatize a particular set of political beliefs, and your misrepresentation of the sources of student discontent at Harvard set an ugly tone in which to further academic pursuits and hardly indicate a willingness to understand or cooperate with students in making necessary changes in this institution...
...hearings" were interrupted throughout the afternoon by protests from Rubin and other spectators. "This is not an attempt to find the truth. This is an attempt to smear," said Rubin, who termed the session a "little Chicago," pointing to the 20-odd policemen lining the walls of the hearing room. At one point, another Yippie stood in the audience to ask if he could go to the bathroom...
This ended Harvard's scoring at 8, two touchdowns and one successful conversion attempt. Holy Cross managed only one touchdown and failed to make the conversion attempt...
...many case studies in The Secret Search, the author's treatment of the Marigold initiative is most instructive and most exciting. The account of this abortive attempt at arranging talks occupies a full third of the book, and Benjamin Read, chief assistant to Dean Rusk and one of the few people in government who has access to the full story, has assured one faculty member here that the account of this incident from late in 1966 is "90 per cent" accurate...
...only Northeastern score came on an intercepted screen pass by Smith early in the fourth quarter. The conversion attempt was blocked...