Word: strove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy brass went on rebelling after unification of the armed services, however imperfect, became fact. In the end, a group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal directness, removed the service's highest-ranking officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, as Chief of Naval Operations...
...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...
Poet Walter Savage Landor (who strove with none, for none was worth his strife) was shocked almost to speechlessness...
Poor baserunning by the Terriers contributed heavily to their defeat, as they strove repeatedly and vainly to stretch singles into doubles and doubles into triples. One man was thrown out stealing home with the bases loaded and one out, and two doubles in one inning failed to produce a run for the BU freshmen...
Finally the owl came out into view--only to fly away to a less public roost. For the next half hour, Miss Holmes amused a crowd of freshmen and assorted passersby as she strove to get within range of the wily bird...