Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempting to arrogate to the Council the power to refuse a group existence because the Council dislikes it, certain Council members have gone too far. Though they seek to portray themselves as democrats because they now would use this power against entrenched privilege as represented by the club system, they must realize that when the right of free association is so seriously curtailed, democracy is not being furthered but instead subverted...
...Seek Cost Slash...
Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
...seek happiness and receive only death," Maurice Maeterlinck had written. "Is happiness within it or beyond it?" On his Riviera hillside last week, death -and the answer to his question-came to Maurice Maeterlinck...
...elected a new president: the Bridgeport Brass Co.'s big, friendly President-Chairman Herman W. Steinkraus, 58. As boss of Bridgeport Brass's 5,000 employees, Steinkraus has not had a strike or a work stoppage, has been so successful at labor relations that other employers often seek him as a speaker on the subject. He succeeds General Electric's Vice President Earl O. Shreve...