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Word: failed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students who fail to pick up their packets today face a $40 fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6500 to Register | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

That was only one of a dozen failed Ethiopian assaults during November. "It's a pity to see the way they waste men," observes a rebel fighter. Ethiopian casualties in the battle numbered 200 killed or wounded and four captured. The rebels refuse to discuss their losses. Says Afewerki: "When you attack, you lose men, and when you defend, you also lose men." The E.P.L.F. leadership is confident, as are Western intelligence analysts, that the sputtering government drive, like the seven other major offensives launched by Mengistu's army since 1977, will fail to crack rebel lines around Nacfa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...three biggest regattas for the men's varsity gave the skippers both a chance to sail and to fail. And the Crimson did both...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Sailors Enjoy Successful Fall | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...stage for an unusual battle: the White House will be lobbying against the House G.O.P. leadership to persuade Republican members to vote for a Democratic tax bill. Nor could Reagan count on much sympathy from Democrats. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "If he doesn't want to fail, he better get some votes out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Reagan and Congress Collide | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...author's either. It is concerned with restoring what she left out: factual (as opposed to spiritual) biography of a conventional kind, drawn from Thurman's book, a study of Finch Hatton's life and Dinesen's letters, which are altogether more open than her book. Where the documents fail him, Screenwriter Luedtke improvises plausible fictions to fill the dramatic gaps. In the process he provides Director Pollack and his actors with still other elements that Dinesen ignored, a coherent overall story line and well-shaped scenes that are mostly playable in crisply minimal dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Where the Wild Things Were Out of Africa | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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