Word: strived
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army...
...wisdom of the ages, and that wisdom is mine. You have shown me dignity in all peoples, and that dignity is mine. All this is part of me. You have given me a goal which will not be attained, but you have shown that only as I strive for this goal will my life be worth the living...
...flood of secondhand reports from Ankara and Istanbul, where anything can be heard and very little can be believed. But for whatever it was worth, it simply recited a series of untenable hopes. It constituted one more bit of evidence that Adolf Hitler cannot avoid catastrophe. He can only strive to postpone...
...though I have never spoken out before because somehow a person who always has to style herself "housewife" in a questionnaire does seem so insignificant. And yet there are so many of us housewives that what we want and, in the privacy of our homes, urge our men to strive for, is surely going to affect the peace...
...clearly here, this path is but a dream awakened, and the future but a wall through which we know no gate. Let us resolve that, when we again assemble, we can look back and see this has not changed. Our paths may part, but we can strive to make each one a struggle greater, far, but no more fed by hate. We can each set as our goal no compromise with evil, no crystallized ascendancy, but a world where we can see all men as we now see ourselves. The thoroughfare to which our road...