Word: attempting
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...multi-consciousness" that biracial educated persons of Black/White parentage have dealt with since the birth of the African-American intelligentsia in the 19th century. Henry Gates notes in an article on Frederick Douglass in the New York Times Book Review (May 28, 1995) how, in several versions of his attempt at an autobiography, Douglass emphasized the fact that his father was a white slave owner in one autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James...
...patted on the fanny by a distinguishedprofessor, and I survived a failed attempt at daterape, by a v Medical School student no less, bothof us cold sober. I just went to back Eliot Halland cried on Mary Douglas' shoulder. She knewwithout m saying much exactly what had happened.It never dawned on me to do anything but endureit...
...Force isn't the only service with embarrassing accidents, Diehl notes. During a 1989 flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...
...that Japan has a 37% share of the U.S. parts market while American parts, which are of comparable quality, account for just 1.2% of the business in Japan. Hashimoto counters that it is not up to government officials to tell Japanese companies what products to buy and that any attempt to do so would violate free-trade principles...
...rarely see a deliberate attempt to defraud the system," he said...