Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only question that really matters is whether the proposed forum was an academic endeavor worthy of Harvard's support. And the clear answer is "No." This is not because the topic itself is "too controversial." Rather, it is because the sponsors of the forum are interested in more than promoting a constructive discussion or aiding the victims of apartheid; they also wish to deceive their audience and promote their own anti-Israel agenda...
...fraternity founder told The New York Times last week. The student's sentiment--echoing a familiar plea at this large College--is natural, even admirable, but his would be method is not. Pursuing the end of social contact, fraternities create the illusion of trading in the difficult, human endeavor of understanding each other in the real world for the phony bonhomie of a club...
Peter Hirsch, portraying Carroll, speaks of combining the grave and the gay. This is a noble endeavor, but not one to be lightly undertaken, as it demands both greater structure and development than Alice gives...
PERHAPS the most fruitful method, I conclude, would be to approach the haircut as a financial endeavor and search for coupons. If there's anyone willing to cut their fares to cut my hair, they deserve some business...
...hired handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what his aunt Nancy Ellis calls a "slightly outrageous streak...