Word: strived
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communists work in a large number of organizations other than their own. We work in these organizations to achieve the stated aims of these organizations--we do not seek to make them into "Junior Communist Parties." We strive to achieve the goals of these organizations by offering relevant program and activity. We seek to expend the membership, and to democratize the structure of these organizations. We also work to raise the consciousness o people in these organizations as to who their allies and who their opponents are, as a clear perspective facilitates social struggle. We will be found in almost...
...impenetrable gloom. He recklessly tips off the viewer that a key character is deranged thus siphoning off surprise from a climactic mad scene for which no Oscars will be won. Meanwhile, Martita Hunt as a dotty old schoolmistress, and Noel Coward, as a dotty old literary type strive to stop the show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep an eye on everyone, there is the man from Scotland Yard-dryly played by Sir Laurence Mivier, who seems bemused to find his king-sized talent tucked into so mundane a role. Obviously, Inspector Olivier has a clue that no sensible person...
...education, and schooling became a function of state governments, which delegated power to towns and local school boards. Still, the main thrust of education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared that education should strive to prepare a child for the world about him, not for the hereafter. Switzerland's Johann Pestalozzi urged schools to stop the "empty chattering of mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most...
...intentionally-overstated the world position and role of the U.N. "This organization," he told the delegates "represents the sole and only path of modern civilization and of world peace." He applauded the wisdom of the Assembly in opening its membership to new nations, and pointedly urged the U.N. to "strive to bring back among you any who have left you, and seek a means of bringing into your pact of brotherhood, in honor and loyalty, those who do not yet share...
...teams venture into the Real World this afternoon, and the improved caliber of the League should be amply demonstrated by their performances. After picking the White Sox in the American League, Princeton in the NCAA's, and Swift Ruler in the Kentucky Derby during the last year, we shall strive for self-redemption here...