Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech broadcast from Peking last week, "the-Chinese Government is willing to sit down and enter into negotiations with the U.S. Government . . . The Chinese people have two possible means to liberate Formosa, namely by war or by peaceful means. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means, so far as it is possible." This was substantially what Communist Chou had said after Bandung last month and, with its familiar qualifying clauses, seemed hardly calculated to advance the chances of a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits...
...Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
...since the end of World War II. Said the Soviet magazine Kommunist: "The need for peaceful coexistence is especially imperative now, because the alternative would be bloody and destructive war." Said the President of the U.S., as he pleaded for greater international understanding: "Through every possible means we must strive to build an honorable peace...
...naivete of Schubert's love-sick miller. In the lower limits of his range, notes lose their individuality and produce an unpleasant drone. Above his beautiful middle voice, Harkless' pitch control gets out of hand, with climatic high notes sometimes painfully flat. In short, he knows what effects to strive for, but he can not always command them...
...group founded by Fulton Lewis Jr., and already banned from the University of Virginia campus, states in its written constitution that it will "unceasingly strive to uncover and eradicate the concerted and well-organized attempt by subversive elements to infiltrate our colleges and campuses...