Word: strove
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...come closer to sainthood-by-acclaim than the Dalai Lama. Revered as a Buddha of compassion by his followers, Tibet's political and religious leader garnered not only a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of his Chinese-occupied homeland but also (as the Apple Computer ads strove to exploit) the vague undifferentiated goodwill of a cynical and overcaffeinated world still auditioning sources of truth, calm and peace...
...club dates back to a golden era of House crew in the 1930s, when President Lowell's original seven river Houses were new and participation in athletics was required. Lowell strove to create a college system modeled after that of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, to the extent of placing the new Houses on the river...
...Moravcsik had to board a plane back to Boston later that day. After that, the couple endured months of cross-country commuting. They strove to spend as much time together as possible, not going more than two weeks without seeing each other. Most of the time, as Slaughter adjusted to her new professorial duties, Moravcsik traveled to Chicago to meet...
Here for First-year Parents weekend, one mother strove to visit her son in Thayer Hall last Saturday. But, in a Yard jam-packed with throngs of political activists, tourists, trick-or-treaters and those seeking refuge from the rain, it was not quite that simple for her to get to her son, Christian P. Quilici...
...paradise located in a new Jerusalem. In Greece the privileged dead gradually came to inhabit the Isles of the Blessed, later the Elysian fields, and in the 4th century B.C. Plato championed the concept of judgment after death in his Gorgias, and, in Phaedrus, postulated an immortal soul that strove ever upward after gaining its freedom from the flesh. What made Jesus' synthesis of these traditions new was the teaching that heavenly happiness consisted not of material pleasures, tribal triumph or an undifferentiated union with the cosmos, but of a glorious personal transformation in the flesh and an eternal communion...