Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would that be good enough? On the night he accepted his nomination Tom Dewey showed his own realization that more was needed. Said he: "Our people yearn to move to higher ground, to find a common purpose in the finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds, to make a good society, a community...
Friends like Douglas Steere, Howard Brinton and Gilbert Kilpack. These groups, composed of Quakers' and non-Quakers, come together in spring and fall to withdraw from the world into the silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...
...Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are provoked and therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...easy to overestimate its importance, nevertheless gave away the real reason for Russia's peace offensive. None of the defeats Communism had suffered were decisive and all could be nullified in a matter of weeks by Western bungling; but they were enough to impel Communism 1) to seek a breathing space for reorganization and political refueling; 2) to try lulling the Western powers into a false sense of security...
...announced yesterday that its representatives in Berlin, Munich, Nurnberg, and Hoechst, Germany and in Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, London, and Oxford will seek rooms for any American tourist who writes or calls in person...