Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unanimously appealed to U.S. Government leaders not to let the country become a militarized state but "to strive continuously toward the ultimate goal of world peace...
This is more or less Flahooley's own difficulty. Its magic lamp gets to seem more like a Pandora's box; its story grows as cluttered as a playroom on Christmas night; and a show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that...
Henceforth, the Herald would strive for simple phrasing...
Basic in orthodox Christianity is the belief that the individual left to his own devices is subject to kinds of behavor harmful to others, and inconsistent with his own true Happiness, as well in this life as in the life to come. The strive to overcome these vices and to replace them with their opposite virtues the Christian finds both an inspiration and a challenge. From the beginning, Christians have banded together to encourage and assist one another in striving, and for the common conservation and use of the means God has placed at their disposal for carrying...
...reading out a paragraph from his April 11 radio speech explaining his dismissal of General MacArthur: "The Communist side must now choose its course of action . . . and with it the awful responsibility for what may follow . . . The decision is theirs, because the forces of the United Nations will strive to limit the conflict if possible...