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Word: avail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Henry Higdon came close to scoring the team's second goal when he skated laterally across the goalmouth and tried to punch the puck in, but to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Whitewash Union | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

Harvard Police took a report and "searched the area with Cambridge police to no avail," spokesperson Peggy McNamara said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Resident Mugged Walking Across Common | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...eight minutes left, and my premature exultation in victory overlooked one last step: opening the drawer. The drawer, one indestructible foot of rugged steel, was one in a long line of many diabolical products concocted in Harvard laboratories. For three minutes I attempted to open it, but to no avail. I pulled, tugged, and tried to sweet talk the drawer into opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Impossible: Finding Library Books | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...President ordered his foreign policy aides to get cracking on diplomacy to cool off the Kurds. As Iraqi forces moved north, Clinton fired off a strong warning to Saddam that military intervention in Kurd affairs was "not an action he could take without paying a price." To no avail. On the eve of the Iraqi attack, the Administration was issuing public denunciations of Saddam, and by the time his troops reached Erbil the next day the President had fixed on the U.S. response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLAMMING SADDAM AGAIN | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning 3-1 score, bringing the favored U.S. team a long-awaited gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GIRLS OF SUMMER | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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