Word: strove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the conferees rustled uneasily at this apt expression of what was in their minds, Sir Cecil Hurst, the British representative, strove to smooth the path of acceptance for Reservation Five by voicing a series of generalities anent the "good will" of the U.S. in international disputes. For some hours the conference marked time and compliments to the U. S. gushed. Then Dr. Osten Undén, the Swedish representative said bluntly...
Along the Danube, 40,000 men, with 10,000 horses and wagons, strove frantically to strengthen dikes and dams, to no avail. Dams burst. Dikes spouted. The Bačka region, above Belgrade, one of Europe's richest granaries, became a broad lake. Tens of thousands of city dwellers fled for higher land...
Deadlocked Giants. The intrigues of a fortnight ago, by which France and Britain strove to force the admission of Poland, the ally of France, to a permanent League Council seat, which would counter-balance the proposed German seat (TIME, March 22), had by last week assumed most discouraging proportions due to the tenacious refusal of the Germans to endure any such "balancing" against them...
...navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure his owner's just dues. Revolutionary officialdom caressed its neck with premonitory tenderness and did nothing but lose his papers. He forced his way to Robespierre and the sea-green monster granted full indemnities. "I remained in Paris about three weeks after my bills were sent to Brest...
...were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days of his pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...