Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the law the Lord handed down to Moses from Sinai (Exodus 21:22-25): "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according to the woman's husband will lay upon him: and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shall give life for life. Eye for eye. tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe...
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive...
Quiet, tenacious and coldly intellectual, Nozaka prefers to stay in the background and strives to keep the Communist Party offstage as well. On occasion, when public opinion has turned hostile to too much violence, he has urged the Japanese Communist Party to strive to be "lovable." In the anti-Kishi, antiAmerican agitation, the Communists have supplied money (cost of the riots: an estimated $1,400,000), direction and organizing ability, but have cannily let the Socialists, Sohyo and the Zengakuren crackpots take the vocal lead...
Scientists who strive toward achieving thermonuclear power-the controlled fusion of hydrogen-have fooled themselves so many times that they are reluctant to claim success. But last week in Washington, Dr. James L. Tuck of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory told the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "We are now prepared to stake our reputations that we have a thermonuclear reaction...
...applause. "War is now utterly preposterous," he said. "In nearly every generation the fields of earth have been stained with blood. Now, war would not yield blood-only a great emptiness for the combatants and the threat of death from the skies for all who inhabit the earth. To strive ceaselessly, honestly and effectively for peace is today the responsibility of every statesman-of yours, of ours, of all countries...