Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent Nixon has succeeded in this endeavor, Rather said. The president has raised doubts where none existed before in the public mind about reporters, and he has been effective in squelching the willingness of local TV newsrooms to defy the official position, Rather explained...
...difficult to know how this conclusion is arrived at: by what criteria the scholar measures work, exhaustion, anguish, weariness or physical endeavor. The truth, of course, is different from that which these scholars advertise. Millions of poor people--black, poor-white and Spanish-speaking--work longer hours, at lower pay, in far less comfortable conditions, at labor many, many times less pleasant, return each night to homes far less congenial, in neighborhoods which are less pleasant and secure, finding their nourishment in food less wholesome, going to sleep at last to dreams less hopeful, waking again to lives far less...
...explain the ease, delight and satisfaction of their own well-fed existence, and the relative penury of those who sweep the basement floors, and clean the toilet bowls, and set the tables in the dining hall. It is for this reason that the Myth of Intellectual Hard Work ("higher endeavor," "more noble, more exacting, less forgiving aspiration") has to be fostered, advertised, believed, by those who are the beneficiaries of the Common Room...
...from his mother, whose family were California landholders, Lewis was independently wealthy. So was his late wife, the former Annie Auchincloss, who was a granddaughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of the original Standard Oil Company. In fact, Lewis has borne all the research costs of the Walpole endeavor, including some 80 trips abroad in quest of material and the salaries of all his assistants (who have usually numbered about a dozen). Lewis does not like to discuss the project's costs; the Yale University Press will say only that by present-day evaluation, it is a "multimilliondollar...
Writing on behalf of Rosovsky, Kaufmann's letter instructed Watson to "raise questions and develop answers to problems that currently exist in athletics which have tended to prevent equal opportunity and access for men and women at all levels of athletic endeavor." The letter came in preparation for control of both athletic departments by Watson...