Word: strove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stefan Raditch's successor as leader of the Croats is Dr. Vladko Matchek. Last week he strove grimly and discreetly to persuade General Zivkovitch not to sup press freedom of speech and assembly utterly in Croatia. Curiously enough, Dr. Matchek favored the dictature when it was first proclaimed, but last fortnight he said...
...best Greek sculptors created ideal, wholly impersonal types of physical perfection. When this sculpture filtered into Rome, puissant Roman sculptors were dissatisfied with merely copying the Greeks. Realists, they chiselled the seamed, tense, virile faces of the men who built Rome, who strove for justice and power rather than beauty. In modern sculpture both these tendencies are visible. Modern sculptors of character, Roman in tradition, sometimes meet a subject with Roman attributes...
...Progressives strove to have the vote taken in open session. They had no chance. Executive session it was, and in executive session, Mr. West was confirmed...
...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...
Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...