Word: strove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to venture beyond his Park Avenue apartment to know that Rocky had the state convention sewn up in advance. But while the Governor was inviting him to serve as campaign chairman-and mentioning him for the state's favorite-son nomination in 1968-Javits cannily strove to create the impression that it was he who retained the initiative. He ended, predictably, by announcing his support for Rockefeller's gubernatorial campaign, while pointedly reminding the public that the Governor had renounced all further presidential ambitions. The G.O.P., after all, could hardly nominate two New Yorkers...
...drunk and tries to talk to the insolent, isolated Andri, Temin and Nagin could have developed a beautiful pattern of slurred overture and acid rebuff. They merely mixed lines and frustrations. The last scene between Barblin and Andri might have built to a striking conclusion. Nagin and Miss Tolliver strove and fumbled, but without precision or notable effect...
While a bewildering array of soldiers and statesmen still strove to sort things out in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE), the two foremost foreign policy spokesmen in the U.S.-President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk-paused to assess the situation...
...Strove tirelessly to achieve a national consensus, adding two phrases-"Let us reason together" and "I want to be President of all the people"-to the American political lexicon. The consensus, of course, became his on Nov. 3, with the greatest electoral victory since 1936 and the largest percent (61%) of the popular vote ever...
...proud that he was one of us, and he made us producer of our University. Not long ago he lived and studied in our halls, walked the familiar paths across the Yard, played on soldiers Field, and in Cambridge grew to manhood. True to his principles he strove to give to Harvard as much as it game him. He was first a director of the Alumni Association and then an Overseer from 1957 to the year of his death. He held the chairmanships of our Board's committees to visit the Departments of Military, Naval and Air Science...