Word: strove
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...most exceptional case. There is no motive here. It is a tragedy, and your reaction must be one of pity, but you must not let this feeling overcloud your reasons." Elizabeth Parsons, with one wrist still wrapped in bandages, sat with bowed head as her counsel strove to prove that she had been in no condition to know what she did, or that what she did was wrong...
...their backs creaked beneath the violent tugging of bold hands, and the sweat flowed down in streams; and many a weal, red with blood, sprang up along their ribs and shoulders; and ever they strove amain for victory...
...Toledo last week, a group of U.S. wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...
...wonderful target. The intellectuals of his title are a specific group; they are the habitudes of "cocktail parties of New York, Boston, and the choicer Eastern universities." Not all of them, of course, but the ones who huddle today under the banner of academic freedom although in 1940 they strove to lynch any professor who said a favorable word about fascism. Not all of them, of course, but those who signed petitions drawn up by people they didn't know, in favor of causes that they hadn't even heard of, but who today shrug off anti-Semitism in Russia...
...then with the Volunteers for Stevenson. As he told the latter group, this was Sunday so he was "not even going to worry about Nixon's conscience." Since the campaign's start, he has imposed on himself a creed of not speaking on Sunday, and this Sunday he desperately strove to maintain the policy of no political speeches on Sunday. To the Volunteers he spoke about religion and political aims of a Democracy. Politics continually peeped up in the speech, but Stevenson almost managed to keep them unobtrusively submerged...