Word: striven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he revved up Hot Rod (on a low-octane stake of $400), onetime Pressagent Petersen has also striven earnestly to eliminate hell-for-leather jalopy jockeys as a highway hazard, helped start up the National Hot Rod Association (headed by Hot Rod's Editor WalIy Parks) to herd drivers into some 700 "drag strips" that are now specifically set aside around the country for 130-m.p.h. hot-rod competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths...
...glimpsed so briefly from the heights of Chunuk Bair just before Kemal Ataturk launched the counterattack that wrecked the Gallipoli expedition. This time the Marines joined with the Turks to frustrate an imagined Russian drive for the same goal, a goal for which Russians, Czarist and Communist alike, have striven since Peter the Great said: "I'm not looking for land; I'm looking for water...
...talking as if the U.S. and not the British-French were responsible for the Suez catastrophe when the U.S. had striven desperately to prevent it, even Mike Mansfield left himself open to the counterblast of Wisconsin's Alex Wiley that the patently anti-Dulles nature of the stalling on the crisis was "blatant, befuddled badgering," and that the U.S. people would so judge...
After the original policy was rejected, Baker's influence began to wane. For years Baker had striven for the construction of a theater in which to house the productions of his Workshop and the HDC, but in vain. Plans had been drawn up in 1914 for a theater of advanced design, but this, despite the Harvard Alumni Bulletin's warning that "the need is pressing; the opportunity is unique," never amounted to anything. In 1924, Yale offered Baker the theater he wanted and the opportunity to teach nothing but playwriting--which he could not do at Harvard--and in that...
...advance, lunging 75 miles into Egyptian territory in the general direction of the Suez Canal. Unknown was whether Israel was launching an unusually deep retaliatory raid, or whether this was the beginning of the painful tidings that the President and Secretary of State had long feared and had long striven to prevent: an Israeli preventive...