Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the surging crowds, the loud music, the furious trading and the boastful oratory of the Republican Convention, Philadelphia seemed almost shockingly quiet. The Democrats had not come to town to stage a war dance, but to seek a cure. Their quarrels were concerned with the efficacy of political liver pills, and they looked at each other with the doleful gaze of incoming patients in a hospital...
After thinking it over, Justice Douglas spared Harry Truman his gamble. Said he: "No person, while a member of the Supreme Court, should seek political preferment ... I say definitely and finally that I am not available for any public office...
...Father, we pray that the people of America, who have made such progress in material things, may now seek to grow in spiritual understanding...
...these islands, and so to Canterbury and to St. Augustine ... To that tradition of Christian experience which by the circumstances of history has come to bear the name of Anglican, we are united in a common loyalty of gratitude and devotion ... By its nature it looks beyond itself to seek that visible unity of the Church of Christ which has been lost...
After his defeat in 1944, he told friends that he would never again seek the office; the office could seek him if it wanted to. But his staff had carried on an assiduous underground operation, their eyes always on 1948. They cultivated contacts in key states, formed alliances which would be useful later, collected intelligence reports on local problems, local people. The Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries almost made all this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard...