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Word: attempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silber survived an attempt by a majority of faculty members and deans to oust him in the spring...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: 500 Area Professors Request Removal of B.U.'s President | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...week martial law investigators issued what they called their "final" report. It concluded that Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Jae Kyu had killed Park because Kim had wild fantasies that he himself should be President. The report exonerated the military of any involvement in Kim's coup attempt; it also credited the martial law commander, Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, with foiling the plot by arresting Kim and the other murderers. The investigation was evidently continuing. The day after the report was issued, Kim was taken to the scene of the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Normality | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Reagan, who stressed in his speech that he will attempt to appeal to Democrats in his bid for the presidency, said party labels will not matter in the 1980 election because the contest will "be a battle of philosophies...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Reagan Courts Democrats, Businessmen | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts in by the back door, but it founders because of the usual Harvard problem of trying to do too much in too short a time. If the Carpenter was limited to a solid, rigorous introduction to drawing and painting for undergraduates it could work wonders...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...came out of the blue for the Minutemen. Harvard goalie Bill Blood punched out a corner kick which U Mass forward Dennis Walsh chipped back near the front of the goal. Moran headed it in past fullback Lorenzo DiBonaventura who could only brush it with his forehead in an attempt to clear it off the line...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: UMass Topples Booters, 1-0 | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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