Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regulation ended with the score tied 14-14 after Holy Cross elected to try a Hail Mary instead of a long field goal attempt. Menick got the chance to make amends...
Harvard won the overtime coin toss and decided to go second. (In college football, each team is guaranteed at least one possession in overtime.) Holy Cross tried a trick play that failed, then threw incomplete, then ran for two yards. A 40-yard field goal attempt missed wide right, so the Crimson only needed a field goal...
...union officials, Harvard to them is not only professors and students, but secretaries and janitors and book-checkers. And they feel that the administration, in its attempt to weigh dollars and cents, misses the bigger moral picture...
...response, Thompson called for a federal crackdown on fathers who fail to pay child support and attempt to escape their responsibilities by crossing state lines...
...like stumbling into electronic quicksand: every attempt to escape only drew unsuspecting Net surfers, including children, more deeply into Web pages full of explicit sex. That lurid webscam, allegedly cooked up by a Portuguese hacker and an Australian company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling...