Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yardlings had a 2-3 record entering the game, opposed to Yale's 0-6 record, but the Elis struck first with a touchdown late in the first period. Harvard blocked the conversion attempt and Yale never scored again...
...either team can forget that last year's Harvard-Yale game, won by the Blue, 24-20, was decided on a break--a Harvard pass defender slipped near the sidelines and then could only watch as Del Marting caught Dowling's winning pass. Harvard's attempt to come back that day was foiled by yet another bad break--a fumble on the Yale 12 yard line with seconds left...
Eliot's gridders downed Berkeley-Calhoun, 14-6. Steve Esquith scored first on a nine-yard pass from Bill Cherry, but the conversion attempt failed. In the second quarter, Bill Darling scored from two yards out to give the Jumbos a 12-0 lead, and Cherry ran it across for the conversion...
...second mistake took place in Saigon. In the months before the October breakthrough, the South Vietnamese made no attempt to veto the our-side-your-side formula, but they clung to some corollaries of their own-most important, their contention that they should speak for the allied delegation once talks began. The Americans regarded that as a nostalgic and unrealistic notion, and refused to believe that Saigon meant it. Thus, when the showdown came in October, the South Vietnamese and the Americans suddenly discovered that they had misunderstood each other all along. The U.S. claimed that Saigon had backed...
...assassination attempt came while Ayub was sitting on a speaker's platform at Peshawar. A disaffected engineering undergraduate in the crowd leaped up and fired two Luger shots from the improbable range of 30 yds. Ayub went on to give his speech, later dismissing the attempt with soldierly aplomb: "Don't worry, it's part of life...