Word: strove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a century Western Jews strove to avoid isolation as victims of persecution, Handlin added. They associated themselves with public feeling and "made the cause of other oppressed groups their own." "Involved in all such issues was an appeal to common conscience and a common stake in human decency...
...fact, deplorably otherwise. It is literally impossible for me to study in the Reading Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the some unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust... Varian Fry '30 Harvard CRIMSON, January...
...Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation...
...Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation...
...Kennedy's solution to the multibillion-dollar farm scandal-90% price supports -seemed no better than any answer offered before. His welfare programs, despite his reiterated pledge to retain a sound dollar, carried the threat of unbalanced budgets and more inflation at the same time that they strove to satisfy human needs. His pronouncements on the need for new diplomatic vigor in Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were based on the assumption of a U.S. lag and his ability to recreate the atmosphere of F.D.R.'s Good Neighbor policy. But the specifics of foreign policy...