* Kimba Wood, Bill Clinton's second failed nominee for Attorney General

Despite sending Kerry Wood to the mound and holding a lead twice, the Cubs ultimately dropped Game 7, and failed to reach the World Series.

The Whig Sir Charles Wood and the Tory Disraeli had both been perceived to have failed in the office and so this provided Gladstone with a great political opportunity.

II Corps resumed operations to capture Nonne Bosschen, Glencorse Wood and Inverness Copse around the Menin Road on 22 August, an operation which failed with heavy losses on both sides.

In an effort to reproduce their success with " Bethlehem Down ", he and Blunt proffered a new carol for Christmas 1929, " The Frostbound Wood "; technically accomplished, this failed to achieve the popularity of its predecessor.

In mid 1968 their fifth single " Wild Tiger Woman ", a song acknowledging the group's love of Jimi Hendrix ( Wood and Burton sang backing vocals on " You Got Me Floatin '", on The Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album, Axis: Bold as Love ), sold poorly and failed to make the UK chart.

In 1864, a proposed railway from Paddock Wood via Cranbrook and Tenterden to Hythe ( the Weald of Kent Railway ) also failed to obtain its Act of Parliament.

While Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders failed to crack the charts, the band's lineup during this period included a young lead guitarist and composer named Roy Wood, whose first commercial song " Make Them Understand ," appeared on one of the band's B-sides in 1965.

The holes in Whomerley Wood show where the Devil dug out his missiles, and the six failed shots lie in a line alongside the road and form the Six Hills.

Crow stated that there were credibility issues with the original autopsy, including that Wood had signed the autopsy herself five months after Davis ' departure, failed to examine tissue samples and did not consult clinical experts before reaching her conclusion.

While Odin's later games ( including Robin of the Wood and Heartland ) were very well received, some later titles failed to live up to expected BT standards.

Professor Wood Jones and others failed in attempts to capture wallabies and transfer them to a sanctuary on Kangaroo Island.

With a team coached by Ray Wood and featuring Carlos Metidieri, but no Wolverhampton Wanderers players, they failed to repeat the success of the previous season.

Wood had previously worked on the failed Jervis Bay feasibility study for a local nuclear power plant, and in response to John Howard's plan for nuclear power production in Australia, Wood stated that he would happily live next door to a nuclear power plant, and would assist in development of an Australian nuclear energy industry.

Wood started his career as an amateur with Newcastle United, though he failed to make a first team appearance and moved to Darlington in 1949.

After he failed to appear for a scheduled performance at the Stress Factory that evening, police officers found him in his hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and rushed him to nearby Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Hutchings was keen to make a permanent band from these musicians and the first attempt included Royston Wood, Steve Ashley and Sue Draheim in the line-up, but the group failed to gel and he recruited a second band, turning to Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Sue Harris, Roger Swallow and Simon Nicol.

Bromley's good form continued and the team went into the final game of the season knowing that if they beat Boreham Wood, and Hampton & Richmond failed to beat Slough, they would be champions.

He found his involvement in vetting new presidential appointments during the transition period to be causing him depression and anxiety, and he blamed himself for the failed Zoe Baird nomination.

Those who failed to pass — most of the candidates at any single examination — did not lose wealth or local social standing ; as dedicated believers in Confucian orthodoxy, they served, without the benefit of state appointments, as teachers, patrons of the arts, and managers of local projects, such as irrigation works, schools, or charitable foundations.

He obtained several ecclesiastical appointments ( including as Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Horncastle ), but owing to the resistance of Pope Boniface VIII he failed to secure the bishopric of Ely in 1298, although he was supported by King Edward I of England and visited Rome to attain his end.

In August 2009, a judge revoked his suspended jail sentence and ordered him to jail for violating terms of his probation, specifically that he had failed to complete an alcohol education program, tested positive for marijuana at an appointment, missed appointments, and didn't pay court costs and fines.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

He had failed to realize that the Burmese were not really treating him as the important visitor he considered himself.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

Unfortunately, the man and woman were not made to appear very interesting at the outset and the menacing figures failed to make them any more so.

Tilghman also failed to act decisively on these orders, which in any event were now too late to be adequately carried out.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

The capacitors on each drum were organized into 32 " bands " of 50 ( 30 active bands and 2 spares in case a capacitor failed ), giving the machine a speed of 30 additions / subtractions per second.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

The Pacific Fur Company failed, however, and the fort and fur trade were sold to the British in 1813.

Tanks were knocked out on both sides, but the German attack failed and they retreated.

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

In 1998 and 1999 AMRAAMs were again fired by USAF F-15 fighters at Iraqi aircraft violating the No-Fly-Zone, but this time they failed to hit their targets.

More controversially, officials of the Federal Reserve assisted in the negotiations that led to this bail-out, on the grounds that so many companies and deals were intertwined with LTCM that if LTCM actually failed, they would as well, causing a collapse in confidence in the economic system.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

After the discovery of the reason why the fixture had failed, a comprehensive inspection of the other fixtures in the tunnel revealed that numerous other fixtures were also in the same state of deterioration.