Word: strove
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...There are a lot of smoke signals going up in a variety of capitals. But we're not sure what they all mean yet." That observation from a U.S. diplomat pretty much summed up the Reagan Administration's attitude of hopeful befuddlement as officials in Washington last week strove to track the latest twists in the convoluted Middle East peace process. The puzzlement was understandable. A promising flurry of diplomatic interchanges two weeks ago among Israel, Jordan and Egypt had created a tentative sense of optimism. But by last week the frustration was edging back as Jerusalem and Amman maneuvered...
Adelphi shot a salvo of three goals into the Crimson net in the first 2:10 of the second. Chris Pujols strove to but the tide with a goal, but to no avail...
...Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...
Although he would never presume to make the comparison directly, it is hard to believe that Weinberger, 67, does not see links between his mission at the Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union...
...audience was treated to anti-Reagan folk songs and to mock speeches and press conferences in which students impersonating Reagan strove to make him appear alternately uninformed, easily confused, bigoted, and extremist...