Word: strove
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...manacled prisoner came face-to-face with justice for the first time, he strove to uphold the swaggering image he had so carefully cultivated through decades of actual and exaggerated derring-do. "This man is a star," Carlos said by way of greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance...
Altman had been accused of lying to the Senate in February about the breadth of White House-Treasury contacts over Whitewater. During House and Senate hearings, Altman strove mightily to salvage his credibility. He failed. Although it had been reported that Altman decided to resign on Aug. 10, sources close to him say he knew as soon as his Senate testimony was over that his departure was likely...
...magazine editors said they strove to publish a wide variety of views in their first issue, including discussions of community, corporations and individual experiences at Harvard...
...fact that the Times article strove conscientiously for objectivity makes its subtle revelations of bias--and it is bias--all the more striking. It repeats a theme often seen in the national media--the bigotry and ignorance of the small town as seen by the big-city reporter, who expects his audience to shake their heads in time with...
Spielberg strove for a similar artlessness with his camera. The film was made on location in Cracow, using the actual factory Schindler operated, even the apartment he once inhabited. The scenes in which the Jews are forced into the ghetto or endure the torments of camp life are shot documentary style, with hand-held cameras. As Spielberg says: "I didn't want to direct off a Cecil B. DeMille crane. I wanted to do more CNN reporting with a camera I could hold in my hand." To enhance this effect, he eschewed storyboards for only the third time...