Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equip the ship properly, was Pueblo stationed off North Korea in the first place? Why no air cover? And why did the Navy steadfastly assume that North Korea, which is not a naval power and has no strategic reason for respecting the freedom of the seas, would never attempt to pirate a U.S. spy ship in international waters...
Still, there is no precedent in Czechoslovakia for Palach's attempt to provoke unrest by the deliberate, fiery kind of self-destruction that Buddhists used in South Viet Nam, and the first appalled reaction was to dismiss his act as the product of a deranged mind...
Pennsylvania used the shooting of guards Steve Bilsky and Dave Wohl to beat Harvard. Both scored in the 20's, nullifying the best effort of Gallagher's varsity career. Harvard almost certainly will attempt to pressure the two guards and force them into bad shots...
...varsity wrestling team travels to Amherst tomorrow to meet the University of Massachusetts wrestlers in an attempt to up its record...
...attempt of some faculty and administrators to keep their meetings closed are ridiculous. During the past two years I was at Oxford University writing a thesis on British universities and, as part of my research project, spectated at many meetings of Congregation: i.e., the teachers and administrators of the university. Not once was any attempt made to exclude...