Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
Aside from physical development, the breeders strive for those elusive and never-certain qualities summed up in the word bravo-comprised not of treacherous bloodlust, nor of fear, but chiefly of noble anger...
...government will be set up in June. The Eastern powers have persuaded the eastern Germans to clamor for a strong central government and a united Germany. This cry of "union" has, of course, a tremendous influence on all Germans. The West cannot ignore that cry. But while we must strive to reach a settlement on unifying Germany, we must also resolve to see that democratic safeguards are included in any scheme, so that elections cannot be rigged, and the rights of all factions will be protected. Also, if the Four Powers can agree on a central government, that government must...
...Formerly," said a brown-kimonoed matron, "the Emperor was the focus of the state. Now where is the focus and what can we strive for? If it is for democracy, what is the exact goal? No one seems able to tell us our objective...
...left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...