Word: striven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden light. Manet's traditional contemporaries tried to do the same, and failed, getting a gloomy, tobacco-juice effect. But people were used to it, and found their way about in the sunless brown caves of contemporary painting as readily as bats. The "transparent atmosphere" that Manet had striven for and achieved was blinding to them. They saw it as an arbitrary patchwork of overbright colors...
...turning point in modern European history. Since the French first proposed it in 1950, the EDC blueprint (it has never been more than that) has divided nations, exasperated Parliaments, rocked alliances. Most of the world's top statesmen have striven for or against it: France's Monnet called EDC "inevitable," Russia's Molotov denounced it as "in tolerable," Germany's Adenauer regarded it as "indispensable." The Communists threatened a new "Korea in Europe" if EDC was ratified; the U.S. promised an "agonizing reappraisal...
...superbly exemplified by Domeniico Scarlatti, the subject of Mr. Kirkpatrick's biography. The altered social role of the musician today, and specialization within music have made adherence to such an ideal the exception rather than the rule (the late Arthur Schnable is said to have consciously and zealously striven toward it). As far as I know Mr. Kirkpatrick is not a composer, but to his eminence as a harpsichord performer and as a teacher he has in the past few months added a reputation as an exceptional writer on music, a writer furthermore who deals with his subject historically...
Ever since 1935, when Congress established the Service to improve the ineffective state college conservation programs, the colleges and the reactionary Farm Bureau Federation have striven to return conservation "to the grass-roots." Admittedly taking politics into account, Benson has complied: in spite of his vigorous denials, conservation seems destined to fall back into the arms of the lethargic College Extension Departments...
...government ... by selecting workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of personal loyalty to himself"; 2) had "impeded decisions on the most important and urgent problems concerning agriculture . . . with a view to undermining the collective farms and creating difficulty in the country's food supply"; 3) had striven "to activize bourgeois nationalist elements in the Union republics...