Word: striven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brisk, tenacious way, Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney has striven to prove his campaign contention that he was a "citizen's candidate." Right after his inauguration last January, he established "Citizen's Thursdays," an open-door invitation to anybody who has anything whatever to say to him, provided the visitor says it within five minutes-a timer rings a bell to mark the close of each interview...
...doing our work, we have constantly striven to . . . render the Greek, as we understood it, into the . . . natural vocabulary, constructions, and rhythms of contemporary speech. We have sought to avoid archalsms, jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod...
...Woman Palace. In foreign relations. Ayub has striven earnestly to improve relations with India, talking a suspicious Nehru into meeting him at the bargaining table. If they could not get around to settling their difficulties in Kashmir, they agreed to divide the waters of the Indus River equitably. Some border tensions have eased, and trade between the two bad neighbors has increased. But despite its huge population (with 93.8 million people, it is the biggest Moslem nation in the world), Pakistan has had surprisingly little impact on world councils. Setting out to make Pakistan's influence felt more. Ayub...
Ironically enough, their dog-in-the-manager attitude may hurt the Church's interests in the long run. For many years, American Catholics have striven to convince their fellow citizens that Catholicism in no way conflicts with the national interest. But despite the President's efforts to demonstrate his independence, this latest ecclesiastical ultimatum can do nothing but inflame religious antagonisms which had seemed to be dying...
Religion, which tells the news of Africa, where missionaries from Dr. Livingstone on have hopefully striven to spread Christianity, but where the "white man's faith" is now facing unprecedented opposition from nationalism, from Islam, from witches and ancestor worshipers, and from the self-styled Messiahs of Christian splinter sects...