Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this constant hide-&-seek the Russians with their larger numbers have an advantage which the Germans can offset only with superior air and armored forces. Lacking this superiority, the Germans recently indicated that they would attempt only a limited offensive, perhaps intended mainly to reduce the Red Army's tank strength, and thus improve the Axis' chances in a prolonged campaign...
Within a hundred yards there were 45 more Japanese bodies. Four were in one foxhole; in death the Japs seemed to seek companionship wherever they could. Another body, its red and yellow and blue entrails spilling out like yeasty dough, lay atop the mound outside the hole. Twenty yards from this foxhole there was a little brown-skinned hand, blown there after it had pressed a grenade against the stomach. The glove encasing the hand was only slightly torn...
...First off, to disclaim any political ambitions. (Said he, of one rumor: "I have no ambition to be Vice President; I would not want to be Vice President; under no circumstances would I seek the nomination for Vice President...
...Nineteen-year-old Frederick Cecil Bartholomew's noggin, once famed for its curls in his days as a child cinemactor, has been "G.I." for three months. In Amarillo, Tex., British-born Bartholomew got the U.S. citizenship his army time entitled him to seek. Asked by girl reporters if he had made any other pledges, the First Class Private answered: "No. I'm safe for a while...
...foreign ore. Often he may find ways in which tariffs can be lowered for the profit of the very groups they are supposed to protect. But most of all he must be conscious of his consumer interest in low prices and variety of choice and must seek advocates -perhaps the storekeepers-to argue his political case...