Word: strived
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curt LeMay's duty to fight for an absolutely unbeatable SAC, with hundreds of intercontinental bombers that can fly at twice the speed of sound at such altitude that the pilots can see the Milky Way at high noon. It is Pat Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions in a vast military machine. And it is the duty...
Even with the proper atmosphere for composition, state songs still need titles. Composers could strive for the "sock it to 'em" effect of a state song like "California Here I Come." Or with New England simplicity, they could follow the example of Oklahoma, whose official state song is entitled "Oklahoma"; or Maryland ("O Maryland...
...personal decision to which I refer will be rendered as soon as it is firmly fixed in my own mind. I shall strive to see that it is based as to my best judgment on the good of our country...
...wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
...great ball of light plunges into vision . . . a rush of heat, like the opening of a furnace door." The witness was obsessed by the horror of the explosion he had seen, and as the months passed, he grew to believe that if all men could see it, they would strive to avoid it, and peace would result...