Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Morgenthau apparently sensed what was coming. He read the committee some generalities that "The Treasury has diligently sought and will continue to seek funds from those sources where borrowing will have the least inflationary effect, and we have done so with what I believe to be most gratifying results." Then he hastily ducked out leaving Expert Randolph Paul and about two dozen other Treasury experts to face the committee...
When, after covering 1,000 miles in 34 days, the three men staggered ashore on an unknown island, Dixon remembered to outline a plan for avoiding possible Japanese sentries, and to seek out a strong mooring post for the precious raft. Even at that moment he was thinking ahead: if the place was dangerous, or uninhabited, they would rest up, scrape together provisions - and take to the raft again...
...short-sighted policies of the last twenty-five years are blamed upon the general public, who have forced their government to continue "sparring with the situation until the American people are ready to face the facts--the bare distasteful facts." This tendency to evade the issue and to seek the easy way out is, for Reston, the greatest threat to a United Nation victory, and he devotes the book to dispelling this threat. Facts contained in chapters like "The Illusion that Time and Money Will Save Us" are ably used to dissipate mental mists, and the reader, given easily digestible...
Chief stumbling block in the program are regulations involving farm price control. For three months the farm bloc has ridden rough-shod over Henderson's best-laid plans and will continue to as long as the OPA must seek the approval from the Secretary of Agriculture for every limitation it plans in that field. At present farm prices cannot be touched until they reach one hundred ten per cent parity. So far this obstacle has tied OPA's hands so tightly that, although beef, cattle, and lamb are now selling at better than one hundred twenty per cent parity, Henderson...
...them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord...