Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displays and parades of earlier anniversaries. Still, the New China News Agency had promised that Peking would be given "a new look, with many billboards freshly painted." As it turned out, this meant that some Mao quotations were painted over and replaced with road safety signs and exhortations to strive for modernization. Peking's 7.5 million population salvaged some holiday spirit from the capital's markets, which were specially stockpiled with 1 million chickens and 300,000 ducks, geese, grouse, hare and fish. In addition, stores were supplied with copious quantities of mao-tai, a fiery liquor...
...sure, involve great tension they are also characterized by a strange tranquillity All the petty day-to-day details are ignored, postponed or handled by subordinates. Personality clashes are reduced; too much is usually at stake for normal jealousies to operate. In a crisis only the strongest strive for responsibility; the rest are intimidated by the knowledge that failure will demand a scapegoat. Many hide behind a consensus that they will be reluctant to shape; others concentrate on registering objections that will provide alibis after the event. The few prepared to grapple with circumstances are usually undisturbed...
...tried to build bridges instead of exploiting divisions, he could not conceive that his death could be twisted into a violent statement. "I am a man plump in the center," he told TIME'S Frank Melville last year. " loathe all manifestations of extremism, and I believe we should strive, above all else, for the dignity and human rights of mankind, regardless of race, color and creed...
Campy, but so classy. Alien and Prophecy have no class. They are aimed at the huge, snorting, blood-soaked pigs we are, and not at the devilishly perverted highbrows we strive...
...duty of students to strive for change when they feel that strong moral issues are at stake, even though their efforts are ineffectual. Students may have an impact on the fate of the Afro-American Department. Their ability to achieve divestiture is much more tenuous, but nonetheless their effort is worthwhile. There has already been much discussion, with no results. The time is ripe for action...