Word: strived
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions banning religious observances in public schools. Beyond the questions of constitutional law lay deep emotions, and the court could have foreseen that its opinions would reverberate in public argument, that its decisions would echo through press and pulpit. It was to be expected that the court would strive to make its opinions as airtight as possible, both in law and logic. Instead, the opinions left room for many a doubt and reservation-by clergymen, by parents, and by constitutional lawyers...
Nineteen airlines fly the North Atlantic and strive to seem different -though their planes are much the same and they charge fares, fly schedules and serve meals that are of agreed-upon similarity. To provide the margin that makes a customer prefer one to another, the airlines labor over service, atmosphere and safety performance. More and more, their admen also stress national characteristics-U.S. flying experience, French cooking, British reliability. Since the majority of transatlantic customers are American, most of the foreign lines try to appeal to their old-country loyalties. With two of the biggest blocs to draw...
...believes that rayon is a has-been, is turning Asia's largest producer of synthetics into newer fibers. Toyo, which has already built several plants abroad, last week was surveying the site for a new Malaysian nylon textile plant at Kuala Lumpur. "If you don't always strive toward new goals," Tashiro says at 73, "you lose vitality. That is disastrous...
...perhaps helped some youngsters to grow up into more moral adults than they otherwise would have become. Many religious Americans, while accepting the court's decision as law, regarded it as a loss to religion, to morality and to the children-a loss that parents and churches must strive to make...
...sworn in as President of Harvard College on October 13, 1953, Nathan M. Pusey said he would take a special interest in trying "to keep assembled here the very best teachers that can be found, to work to ensure conditions conducive to their best efforts, and constantly to strive for more effective ways to make their activity touch, quicken, and strengthen the intellectual aspirations of succeeding generations of young people...