Word: strove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million in U.S. disaster relief from visiting U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who strove to downplay the contra problem. Shultz said the shot-down contra supply plane "was not part of the government's operation...
...queen deliberately strove to provide herson with an education equivalent to that of a sonof upper-class British parents and raised him tobe acquainted with friends of his age group...
...strike back at foreign critics and limit the severe damage to Soviet prestige caused by the accident and by Moscow's initial refusal to let the rest of the world know what had happened. As workers labored to encase the crippled reactor in concrete and render it harmless, Gorbachev strove to seize the offensive and contain the worst political fallout from the disaster...
...grew up in Salem, Ohio, not having much save a spit-in-your-eye disposition. She attended a high school that strove to provide a calling, as well as an education. From a rack of meager choices, she selected a clothing major, and when she was a junior she won the local, state and national make- it-yourself-with-wool contest with a suit symmetrically superior to the competition...
...pressure aspect of the meet was good for us," Captain Annie Wilson said. "We don't have too many like this." While some of the women strove to make Eastern cuts, others used the opportunity to swim events other than their specialties...