Word: strove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the harsh clamp of the Japanese blockade, Free China strove patiently and primitively to keep her economy breathing. A scene caught by the camera at a salt mine told part of the story...
...Fifty-five-year-old Author Boyd (Drums, Roll River, Bitter Creek, etc.) died last Feb. 25, of a heart attack, at Princeton, N.J., where he was pursuing his war work. The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), which he founded, strove to counter the enemy's propaganda...
...life thereafter Paul strove "to fuse into one person . . . the two Pauls, Paul the Jew and Paul the Greek." He was considered a heretic by his Jewish brethren not because he believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but because he believed that He was the Son of God. And all through his life Paul never quite lost the feeling that, while he meant to reconcile the world to Jesus, he had actually "thrust a wedge between Israel and the world...
...Svoboda, the sight of his new army must have made up for the years of disappointment. To bring it into being he argued, pleaded, strove to blunt Moscow's fears and suspicions. Once the Soviet Union leaders were convinced that Svoboda's army would be no future menace, they spared neither materiel nor care...
...strove with none. I always hated strife...