Word: strove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Greater Germany shouting "Heil!", Celebrator Hitler's followers strove hard to depict as a great soldier the former corporal of Kaiser Wilhelm II's army. In radio broadcasts throughout Germany, Führer Hitler was being pictured as a military as well as a political genius. It fell to no army officer but to Dr. Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief, to reveal that Genius Hitler's technical knowledge of things military "astonishes even the experts." So exultant was the Hitler birthday celebration throughout the Reich that Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior, was moved...
...four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
Hundreds of fishing vessels and small Chinese houseboats were splintered against the sea wall and the rocky coast. Screaming coolies were catapulted into the seething water, many to be drowned, few to be saved by a life line of rope-tethered police and customs officers who strove spunkily, but hopelessly, against the storm...
...friends who knew him best will continue to "carry on" and to bring to full fruition the ideals that he strove so gallantly to accomplish during his all too short lifetime, requiescat in pace and continued honor to his memory...
...silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept it and at the frontier barrier Her Royal Highness learned that her sleepy Dutch maid had bundled into the rumble $10,000 worth of gowns which had come to her "on approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling...