Word: endeavor
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...describes the moment when he and his wife entered their scarcely furnished Lowell rooms after two days of driving their U-Haul truck as the first “fiery test” of their commitment to the year-long endeavor...
...conciliatory despite England's intransigence. Indeed, Jefferson's words echoed some of the language that Franklin had used, earlier that year, in a draft resolution that he never published: "Whereas, whenever kings, instead of protecting the lives and properties of their subjects, as is their bounden duty, do endeavor to perpetrate the destruction of either, they thereby cease to be kings, become tyrants, and dissolve all ties of allegiance between themselves and their people...
...they felt some satisfaction when we didn’t. During my term at the helm of this section, I never believed that all 41 sports merited equal coverage. But I’d hope the athletes on those teams never let that fact demean the dignity of their endeavor. There is excellence in the pursuit, regardless of the publicity it generates...
Despite this low response rate, Welch says the endeavor was useful, and helped the committee get a sense of the biggest problems facing female faculty at the University: child care availability and inconvenient meeting schedules...
With this time trade-off in mind, students often choose to participate in the endeavor they find most rewarding, he says...