Word: strove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quite appropriately, he chose to tell the story of a man (William Randolph Hearst) who shared his talent for big ideas and big success. And yet, he did not take the easy way out and laugh at Kane for the pompous megalomaniac that he was; he strove to make him a human being instead of a straw man like the one Andy Griffith played in A Face in the Crowd, a movie vaguely reminiscent of Kane. Indeed, Welles could never be called supersubtle in his characterization of Kane as a love-starved neurotic, but then he entirely avoids simple caricature...
Died. Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, 73, strongman Premier of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939, a brilliant economist turned politician who courted the Rome-Berlin Axis and strove vainly for dictatorship of his own nation until his exile in 1941; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...Worry?" As Secretary of Defense, Charlie Wilson's record was bittersweet. He strove to apply Detroit's big-business methods to big Government, in his first 17 weeks in office fired 40,000 civilian employees. Over three years, he slashed $11 billion from the nation's defense budgets. But in running the Pentagon, economic efficiency is not always equivalent to military effectiveness-and there can be little doubt that Charlie Wilson, chopping away at the U.S. Army on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration's massive deterrent policies, left wounds that pain to this day. Beyond that...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...
...Belgian Government aide, Miss Gilberte Denoux, defended certain aspects of her country's policy vis a vis the Congo. She strove to demonstrate that European colonization has not been an unmitigated disaster for Africa...