Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...integral segments of certain overall social processes is not good enough. We are dealing with 25 million of our own people with a special history, culture, and range of problems. It can hardly be doubted that the study of black men in America is a legitimate and urgent academic endeavor...
That is Western man, and with these qualities he will succeed or fail. It is possible to look at the moon flight and shudder at the vast, impersonal, computerized army of interchangeable technicians who brought it about. It is also possible to see in this endeavor the crucial gifts for organization and cooperation that alone will make survival in the post-industrial age feasible. It is possible to look at the moon flight and be dismayed at the crass expenditure of money, sweat and time, the sheer materialist effort, the ultimate triumph of gadgetry, the unabashed hubris of technique...
...ground, his eye on the future and his chin up." There is always a group of loyal wives, like the woman from Florida who nominated her husband -"on behalf of all husbands and fathers who, though part of the establishment, set an example of honesty, integrity and purposeful endeavor for their sons and daughters to emulate." And chances are no one was more earnest than the high school student from Okinawa, who nominated his father, a U.S. serviceman. "When I needed him, he was always there...
...Unlike your business reporter, I was cheered to learn of Norway's exit from the 18th century endeavor of whale hunting [Nov. 29]. Will the final exit of this industry be the result of responsible action by civilized nations or the extinction of these remarkable mammals? May a whale always be a whale, not margarine, dog food and then a memory...
Expansion of Fact. Nearly everybody aboard who could write seems to have kept some sort of journal, scribbling away in the meridional heat like diary-addicted schoolgirls. Patiently, Blunden has stitched and embroidered it all together-Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled because the aborigines greeted them by shouting "Charco!"), the escape and return of a seaman named Saunders who lived with the natives for a while and discovered gold. The voyage also seems to have occasioned European man's first sight of the kangaroo (it was taken...