Word: need
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears we need again be reminded that wagging a dog's tail will not make him friendly, putting tears in one's eyes will not make him sad, or standing his hair on end make him fearful...
...presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard M. Nixon, after all, had done just that for the previous eight years...
Conscious of the need for continuity of leadership, the Cabinet named Allon to carry on while a successor is chosen to head the government until Israel's general elections next October. To fill that largely caretaker role, party leaders offered the top job to the one person around whom all Israeli politicians could rally: strongwilled, grandmotherly ex-Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
...frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine. In the '40s, he was a member of the high command of the Haganah, responsible for buying and manufacturing arms...
...ready to roll off for a royal romp. Saud was accompanied in exile by a fleet of flashy cars, 20 chauffeurs and an entourage that occupied 60 of the hotel's 72 rooms at a monthly rate of nearly $67,000. He was as wealthy as any king need be, and wealthier than almost any are these days. Reasonably accurate guesses pegged his bank balance at some $600 million, drawn from royalties on the oil that has been gushing for years from beneath the golden sands of Saudi Arabia...