Word: attempting
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...attempt to attract elderly customers, students and lunch-time office workers to the market, the owners designed a special sitdown eating section, Ring says...
...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...
...Crimson has no policy on headline writing, though in this column I will attempt to explain the process by which headlines come to appear on the page...
...attempt at an act of censorship,"Evers said...
Which, in fact, Liberty has, along with a few computer terminals, a stage for bands, friendly couches, an old typewriter, the world's complete supply of Wired Magazine back-issues and one huge plant--we believe in a vain attempt to purify the clove- and tar-laden air. Although a sign explains that in the future smoking may have to be restricted due to the complete lack of ventilation, Liberty currently maintains smoking and nonsmoking sections. Suggested, of course, not enforced. Ah, the liberty...