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Word: seek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committee members contend that the theater management has acted illegally and will ask it to end all restrictions on HLU programs. If no settlement can be made, then HLU will sue the theater for damages and seek an injunction against future pressure on distributors. However, the committee declined to reveal what form legal action will take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.L.U. Decides on Legal Proceeding Against U.T. | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

What was good for the country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...year the Communists got to Shensi (1935), the world Comintern line swung to the "united front" policy which advocated solidarity among all anti-fascist forces. Moscow instructed Ye-ran to seek a united front with Chiang Kai-shek against the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Social Scientists will seek to discover how each city looks at itself and at other parts of the world. From this data the group hopes to find out why conflicts between various nations arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Flies Back from Paris | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

...realistic, tight-knit study in fear, hatred and revenge, is a well-made movie melodrama. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman, who gets as much power out of his lens as if it were a fire-hose nozzle, deals this time with a deadly game of hide & seek. The fugitive is an ex-bomber pilot (Van Heflin) who once betrayed a group of fellow prisoners to curry favor and food in a Ger man prison camp. Stalking him with a maniacal single-mindedness is Bombardier Robert Ryan, the only survivor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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