Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus the Soviets would strive to achieve at least a favorable 'draw' by occupying the Eurasian continent, and exploiting such resources as might still be available to restore some of the Soviet Union's losses. The shrunken and devastated Free World would be entirely relegated to the Western Hemisphere...
...thought of Prestes' votes whetted political thirsts in Congress; five days later the judge who has jurisdiction over Prestes' case decided that the Communist leader "does not intend to flee from application of the penal law," and revoked the arrest order. Above ground, Prestes will probably strive for re-establishment of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Russia, legality for his party, increased membership. During his last period of freedom, from 1945 to 1947, he built membership from 900 to 130,000, making Brazil's Communist Party the fifth biggest outside the Iron Curtain...
CORPORATIONS are not expected to have souls, but the men who run them often strive to give them personality and prestige that go beyond the point of standard salesmanship. Out of the effort to achieve that prestige has come a special category of architecture: the showpiece office building. Among the newest and most impressive of U.S. corporation castles is Manhattan's 38-story headquarters for the whisky-making House of Seagram, now being finished at 375 Park Avenue, the first bronze-sheathed skyscraper ever constructed...
...Strive for excellence," advise the authors, "and you never will be found in the sinks of pollution, and on the benches of retailers and gamblers...
...grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...