Word: strove
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Lemass faced monumental problems, for during the '30s the government was locked in a vindictive, futile economic war with the English, though it remained economically dependent on Britain. He strove desperately to mobilize enough new industry to supply the nation's basic needs, though at high cost; he also founded the state transport network and organized a national merchant marine in time to keep Ireland fed during World War II, in which he took on the additional job of Minister of Supply, and by brilliant improvisation averted crippling shortages...
...separate concurring opinions, the court's only Roman Catholic and its only Jew strove to reinforce the point that the decision bans prescribed religious observances in public schools-and nothing more. Wrote Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "I venture to suggest that religious exercises in the public schools present a unique problem. For not every involvement of religion in public life violates the establishment clause." He went on to argue that the decision did not apply to chaplains in the armed services, prayers in legislative bodies, tax exemptions for religious institutions, religious mottoes on currency or the "under...
...provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship, strove to embody a new, impatient, class-defying England. The moral decay surrounding the Profumo affair, he tried hard to suggest, must be blamed on the Tories. Referring to Christine Keeler's reported $14,000-a-week nightclub contract, Wilson declared: "There is something utterly nauseating about a system...
...Multiplicity of Meetings. As Election Year 1964 drew closer, the Kennedys strove even harder to solve the nation's civil rights dilemma without really offending anyone. In recent weeks both Jack and Bobby have used all their great powers of persuasion in numerous closed-door meetings with various groups-Negro and white, Southern and Northern, business and labor leaders. Last week Jack and Bobby, along with Vice President Lyndon Johnson (a key presidential adviser in the civil rights area) assembled 280 U.S. labor leaders in a futile meeting at the White House, called upon them to work against racial...
James befriended and encouraged him over a long period of lonely years --their correspondence is voluminous. But they were poles apart temperamentally. James wrote for a large, broadly educated audience; he stressed the general outline, the exhortation the sprightly analogy. Peirce strove fro precision, elegance and an impeccable logical structure...