Word: strove
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...musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness, guarded a secret contempt for our sisters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be part of male society...
guarded a secret contempt for outsters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be pa? of male society...
...independent, self-governing soviet that guaranteed extensive intellectual and personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never strove to move their experiment beyond the island fortress. They believed instead that the revolt would generate itself in most other areas, such were the depths of their confidence in spontaneous insurrection...
Last week the city's health authorities strove to work out a set of equitable and uniform rules. Doctors in several individual hospitals were drawing up their own rules, more restrictive than the code. This brought from Lawrence Lader, chairman of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, the charge that "the medical establishment is flouting the will of the people and of the legislature." He threatened to take the issue to the courts if the clear intent of the law is not carried...
...Forster's genius lies precisely in the impossibility of stuffing his books into literary boxes, however labeled. He strove to maintain a free and, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. d;sinterest-ed view. More than any other novelist, he is proof that to become a significant writer, a man must be neither an idea machine nor a recording angel, but a human voice sounding with its own shifting intonations in the ear and heart of the reader. Describing the peculiar discrepancy between apparent message and feeling in Forster's novels, Lionel Trilling observed: " 'Wash...