Word: strived
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace, right across the street from the showrooms of the capi tal's chief undertaker. At 68 the longest-ruling monarch in Europe, Grand Duchess Charlotte abdicated in favor of her son, Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano, 43, who promised to strive to "ban all that remains of moral and material misery" in his domain...
Pitzer's 156 students and ten faculty members are alternately merry and moody as they strive to reduce chaos to confusion. "I'm just completely, totally in ecstasy over this whole thing," bubbles Student Taffy Squires. "But the hardest part is that there is nothing concrete to hold on to." The most concrete aspect of Pitzer is its first two buildings, a dormitory and a combination administration-classroom building, which are wired for closed-circuit television and tape recordings designed to transmit lectures, panel discussions and dramatic productions right into the girls' rooms. Teaching methods are mostly...
...student who craves prominence in any of the major organizations, the experience of Cain becomes a pivotal, diurnal reality. All of these societies--the CRIMSON, WHRB, the Lampoon, the political clubs--have full-scale executive competitions, in which longtime friends must strive against one another, all seeking coveted offices. The same is true of varsity athletics, or of the struggles for Radcliffe girls at a one-to-five premium. Some students suggest that they take their cue in the Cain complex from observation of the Harvard Junior Faculty...
Groping for a more straightforward form of fund raising usually leads churches to strive for pledges of money. Pledging means sending a regular check to the church treasurer. It is orderly and convenient for people who need canceled checks for income-tax deductions, and for those who, not going to church regularly, cannot dependably contribute by collection plate...
...beyond that we see and cherish diversity of ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments. We don't seek to live anyone's life for him. We only seek to secure his rights, guarantee him opportunity to strive with government performing only those needed and constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise be performed...