Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CCBA sees the Harvard study as another attempt to grab onto the fading strength of the Bakke decision...
...Wisconsin. Born mildly retarded in 1918, she was made much more so after her father made the questionable decision to subject her to a prefrontal lobotomy. With that episode as a constant backdrop, even the best-intentioned Kennedy efforts on behalf of the mentally disabled will seem partly an attempt to reconcile with a past the family cannot undo. But what may have started as something like a penance long ago is now one of the family's most useful devotions...
...troops with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Then, having done his best, Eisenhower imagined the worst. Along with a ringing message to his troops, he drafted a different one in case the invasion failed. In it he said, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone." Ike's integrity, on and off the battlefield, gave him unparalleled credibility in the postwar world, whether launching Atoms for Peace; ending the war in Korea; sending federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to integrate the school; or warning against the evils of what he named...
...York Times had to ruin it. The paper finally dropped the snooty subtext sprinkled throughout its Metro section, its Real Estate section and its none too subtle Dining In section ("Tonight, my lord, we shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...
According to Cooper, the preceptors attempt to select essays covering a broad range of topics for the magazine...