Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Moran bluntly told WLB he would not comply with its order. If he continues his defiance, WLB can seek to have Shipbuilder Moran stripped of his Government war contracts. Or President Roosevelt could seize the yard...
...dissolved immediately after the war's end. So decided 68 church leaders from 14 nations, gathered at Princeton, N.J. last week for a round-table peace conference under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches. Reason: they want no postwar military line-up of victorious big powers, seek an all-nations world body instead...
...Record. "We entered [the war] of our own free will, without ourselves being directly assaulted. . . . We seek no profit, we want no territory or aggrandizement, we expect no reward and we will accept no compromise. . . . Against the triumphant might of Hitler, with the greedy Italian at his tail, we stood alone, with resources so slender that one shudders to enumerate them even...
...resistance in rugged country, almost devoid of communications. She has trumps of war today for the Allies: some 1,500,000 men whose fighting qualities are superb, despite their lack of mechanized training and equipment; and, most desirous of all, passage for the Allied troops through Turkey if they seek to go by land, protection for their sea-and-island flank if their offensive is seaborne...
...holy.. . . Human personality, declared by Jesus to be the most sacred thing, is holy. What then should we do when holy things are beneath the war machine or threatened by it? This is the issue and, in the presence of this reality, the overwhelming number of those who seek to know the mind of Christ find themselves following Him when they fling their lives against the war machine...