Word: strove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sevastopol the Germans still strove to finish that fortress, thereby clearing the way to control of the Black Sea and an advance into the upper Caucasus...
...China last week the Japanese held all but 50 of the 450 miles of railroad between Nanchang and Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...United Nations command hung grimly to its toehold on the near side of the vast island of New Guinea (one-tenth the area of the U.S.) and strove to shake loose the hold of the Jap on the other side. The Jap bounced right back, raided the Allies' New Guinea base at Port Moresby almost daily...
With what they had, U.S. and Australian airmen strove to smash, scatter and delay the assembling Japanese convoys and air fleets before they could gather their full strength for assault. A Navy communiqué from Washington reported a great victory by U.S. and Australian naval airmen (who probably flew PBY patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender...
...last U.S.-held slice of Luzon it was everybody's war. Army cooks strove to put out the best of food, robbed each other blind. In lulls, barbers calmly cut soldiers' hair. In one comprehensive job, a barber cut the hair of seven Marines by letters so that when they stood together the pattern of the cuts spelled VICTORY...