Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catholic educators now strive for "education of the total person, the communication of a faith that is relevant in a secularized world and the creation of a "social awareness that compels one to action," Switzer said...
Divers constantly strive to improve their list--aerialist jargon for the dives that they perform in competition--so as to incorporate dives with higher degrees of difficulty...
...whole point of Playboy's upcoming article is to titillate men by debasing into objects the very women who strive hardest to escape that role. The message will be that even the brightest, most achievement-oriented women are really nothing but sexual playthings after all--a message insecure, sexist men are eager to receive...
Such movements, wrote Historian Norman Cohn, strive to endow "social conflicts and aspirations with a transcendental significance - in fact with all the mystery and majesty of the final, eschatological drama." To be human is to live inside history, to accept a reality that does not respond to dogma or a megalomaniac's discipline. One escape is that found by the people in Jonestown. - Lance Morrow
Teng's New Long March is moving ahead under the ubiquitous slogan STRIVE FOR THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS! The four: industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense. The goals that the Peking leadership has set for China are truly herculean-perhaps too much so for a country that is still recovering from the shocks and turmoils of Mao's last years. Thus many Sinologists wonder whether the ambitions of Teng and his pragmatic followers may not eventually prove to be as chimerical as those of Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, when peasants were urged to smelt...