Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached his target he was flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...
Their purpose, said the Yenan radio, was to promote the national war effort against Japan, to give vigor to the democratic groups throughout China and the "formation of a coalition government as well as the liberation of the Chinese people." The present meeting was only a preparatory committee to set the date and technical details for a full-dress conference of the people's representatives of liberated China...
...remaining windows in Aldershot's stores, made a shambles of the town's shopping center. Said one soldier: "Yesterday it looked as though a V-1 had hit the town; it must have been a V-2 last night." In Ottawa, Defense Headquarters said every effort was being made to find shipping space to repatriate the Canadians. In the next six months 126,000 men would be transported back, but probably 125,000 Canadian soldiers, like thousands of U.S. troops, would still remain in Europe at the beginning of 1946, in addition...
...Procedures for the settlement of terminated contracts have become steadily more efficient [but] the most influential of all is the widespread confidence that, whatever the difficulties of the transition period may be, beyond it lies an unparalleled demand for peacetime goods. Manufacturers . . . will leave no stone unturned in the effort to get their share...
...think you ought to write a first-rate novel about it . . . instead of spilling it in little pieces." And soon Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective character and to explain his own dilemma - that of a man torn between the "moneyed celebrity" of Hollywood and his ambition to do honest work. He had developed, says Dos Passos, "a real, grand style...