Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strive to become the quite possible...
Could all this be of value to experts? Most agreed it could. Tournament players usually strive for contracts in the highpoint major suits-hearts and spades-or in no-trump. But hearts is the lowest-ranking of the three, the "danger suit." An opponent can shut out a heart bidder with a spade call at small risk. This, in turn, makes it much more costly for the heart bidder to reach his contract. If he knows his partners heart length, he reduces his risks...
...liberal who favors our Government's policy of intervention in Southeast Asia, I wonder about Professor Hans Morgenthau, Walter Lippmann and their supporters. They strive to isolate American military and political power from non-Chinese areas that they imperiously assign to China's sphere of influence. But they are found to be articulate pleaders for diplomatic and economic intervention by the U.S. insofar as recognition of and trade with Red China are concerned-the wave of the Communist future to be ensured inevitably with aid from the wave of the capitalist past...
...Murrow's solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...
...Church: "There are occasions when mercy killing is justified because it is desired by the person who is ill." More cautiously, the Roman Catholic Church follows the principle, poetically and archaically articulated by the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough, that "Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive officiously to keep alive...