Word: strove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...etiquette, Van Atta got another lesson in Lieut. General George Kenney's head quarters in Port Moresby. The reporter was sitting on the floor talking to Kenney when MacArthur entered. Van Atta started to get to his feet, MacArthur told him to stay put. Politely, Van Atta still strove to rise. The General hollered "Sit down," and enforced the order with a whack on the shoulder that crumpled the cor respondent to the floor...
Cotton Spinners. The last assumption is the one that raises eyebrows. Cotton-textile production is a case history in the pitfalls of price control. Cottons are a prime factor in the cost of living, so OPA strove to hold prices down on finished goods. Meanwhile raw cotton, not under ceilings, was imperfectly controlled by the periodic dumping of Government holdings. At the same time labor costs rose 30%. The higher wage levels didn't hold textile workers; they have gone into much better paid war jobs and have been drafted so fast that WMC last month defined them...
Peter Blume's hopes and prophecies were clear enough on his canvas. Italian workers strove toward the sunlit Forum. Mounted Fascist officers, attempting to prevent them, were dragged from their chargers while the uniformed ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry, headed by Fire Commissioner William A. Reilly strove to establish whether the holocaust involved criminal negligence, and if so, who were responsible for the fire trap...
Death for the Invader-At each end of a spacious hall in the Escuela Republica de Mexico stood a volcanic panel in which huge figures, with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...