Word: strove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with, we never intended for this position to be a student position. This fall, when our executive secretary left, we "posted" the availability of the position and received a number of applications. In reviewing the applications and interviewing the applicants, the Administrative Committee--Brian's employer--strove to choose the most qualified applicant. That applicant proved to be Brian, who also serves as the Council Vice-Chairperson (he puts in over 40 hours weekly dispensing his duties for the Council...
...Lincoln Brigade, it presents a history of America on film unavailable in any other medium. Seeing Red is a comprehensive study of American Communists that allows one to meet the ideology of communism through the once youthful eyes of those who saw an America below their standards and strove to do something about...
...audacity of this Guthrie offering brings honor to the U.S. theater. It also reminds us of what an intrepid culture hero Henrik Ibsen was. He strove mightily against the confines of a narrow provincial society to free the spirit and light up the mind. All of his plays are the sounds of chains snapping...
...unfortunately, with Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Though Miller strove for Greek myth, his play is more of a tabloid melodrama. A simple stevedore named Eddie (Tony Lo Bianco) in Red Hook, Brooklyn, allows two of his wife's Sicilian relatives, illegally smuggled into the U.S., to live in his home. The younger one, Rodolpho (James Hayden), falls in love with Eddie's orphaned niece, Catherine (Saundra Santiago...
...German parliamentary elections will be held on March 6 (see box), and the arms-control issue may swing the outcome. The election results, in turn, could determine whether the American missile deployment proceeds on schedule, not only in West Germany but in the other NATO countries as well. Gromyko strove to be dovish in Bonn, though he did drop an occasional note of menace. "We cannot ignore the fact," he warned, "that the Federal Republic is the only state due for deployment of Pershing II rockets, which can reach strategic targets deep in the Soviet Union in a few minutes...