Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allston families yesterday afternoon gained another day in their attempt to avoid eviction by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) when Judge Francis J. W. Ford '04 recesed the hearing on the case until 10 a.m. today...
...Friends has several moments which benefit from minimal rehearsal and much ad libbing. Especially genuine is the party scene in which one intense student passionately berates, another for daring to attempt a mathematical solution to the universe. "You can't put anything into a black and white definition," he screa?ms and procceds to pour a bottle of alcohol over his opponent's head. In another scene, a kid asks a girl politely but firmly to remove all her clothes. She does so, and he leaves, explaining that he simply wanted to see her naked...
...controversy, now ten years old, concerns an attempt by the Boston Redevelopment. Association to build lowto-moderate income housing on the site. The BRA claims that $5 million in Federal funds will be lost if construction does not start by November...
There was some fear that those opposed to the park might attempt to disrupt the dedication ceremonies. But the ceremonies proceeded smoothly...
Herbert Butterfield's chestnut is quoted twice in May's writing. Behind most international conflicts, Butterfield wrote, is "a terrible human predicament ... a terrible knot almost beyond the ingenuity of man to untie. The trouble with option diplomacy is that it makes no Gordian attempt to explain how policy could have been handled differently. "You put everyone in their place," says a critic, "and see how their options were limited to a, b, and c, and see that the war was tragic but inevitable. You can never make any criticism of American foreign policy this way." Without some analysis...