Word: strove
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DIED. William Saroyan, 72, prolific Armenian-American novelist, playwright and short story writer who strove to convey the romance and vitality of American life in such works as the 1939 Pulitzer-prize winning play, The Time of Your Life, and the 1943 novel, The Hu man Comedy; of cancer; in Fresno, Calif. (see THEATER...
...emergence of Soviet hegemonism is the peculiar outcome of the developments following World War II. For a long time, as the United States became bogged down in wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Soviet Union strove to expand its strength, narrowed the gap in economic development between itself and the U.S. and immensely enhanced its military power. It achieved parity with the United States in nuclear armaments and even surpassed it in conventional weaponry...
...little she strove, and much reprented, and whispering "I will ne'er consent"--consented. Don Juan...
...next 54 years after that carry-on part, Peter Sellers strove for the role. When he died of a heart attack last week in London, he was still officially untitled, but he had more than earned his royal mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated...
...beams, which are further diffused by pebble-grained glass panels set in the ceiling's grid. The arrangement imparts a subtle variety to many a familiar painting as the sky changes. The impressionists, in particular, take on a new animation, since they painted en plein air and strove to capture the different aspects that nature's changing light could give the same scene...