Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American need to get the "finest insights of our finest citizens," he said. "It is time now through education to endeavor to make this operative in lives of more and more of our people...
...hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...
...Going short" is an ancient and accepted practice in securities markets. It is also such a hazardous endeavor that few market players save virtuosos are advised to try it, and sometimes they are sorry. Last week one such rueful expert was Wall Street's George Geyer, one of the nation's biggest dealers in insurance stocks, who closed the doors of his brokerage house "indefinitely" while he counted up the cost of going short...
...Waterhouse rose to speak for the Tory rebels. An ex-Guardsman who is seldom heard on the floor of the House, he was stern and resolved. "We speak in sorrow," he said. "In this piece of paper we have got all that is left of 80 years of British endeavor, thought and forethought." He complained of U.S. pressure: "For many years we have had a little American lamb bleating in Cairo, not helping and if anything hindering in most things. Well, he has got his way . . . We are becoming weary of our responsibilities . . . our burdens are becoming too irksome...
...most respected U.S. allies reversed itself surprisingly last week. Back home from the Geneva Conference, New Zealand's External Affairs Minister Clifton Webb told Parliament that Red China should now be admitted to the U.N., "in an endeavor to drive a diplomatic wedge between Red China and Russia." New Zealand (which does not itself recognize Red China) has long agreed with the U.S., its ANZUS partner, that Red China should not be admitted until it changes its aggressive ways. But now Webb argued that in view of Chou En-lai's behavior at Geneva, "it would be hard...