Word: strove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PARIS, April 8--Under the threat of a Communist takeover in Laos, the United States, Britain and France strove tonight to adjust their differences in Asia and Europe. President Charles de Gaulle's government exhibited a new spirit of cooperation...
...with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative and attractive: the skeleton of a frame house served a surprising variety of functions during the four, tedious acts. It was sad to see such rich resources used for such a poor work...
Speaking very deliberately--pausing frequently to ask himself "how should I put this?" or to repeat an important point--Baldwin strove to impress his predominantly white audience that "the color problem remains the central problem of the twentieth century." It affects the nation in all areas of life, from foreign policy to personal relationships, he said, and at the same time serves to alienate 22,000,000 Negro citizens from their white countrymen and from a large portion of their government's decisions...
...Unique Force. Yet the final mood of Marilyn Monroe is embarrassment. First taken by the world only as a vapid comedienne, she strove to become both an actress and an intellectual, and in death somehow became something more. As the London Daily Mail noted, her death has "impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." The arid, senseless argument that follows it-suicide or accident?-only heightens the general shame in a quibble over whether a token of death amounts to death itself. To say that she died while trying to live (the hand on the telephone) only avoids the issue...
...course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...