Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unions could be harassed to death with endless litigation. The requirement that the NLRB seek an injunction whenever a boycott or jurisdictional strike was charged by an employer was "clearly a backward step toward the old abuses of the labor injunction...
...Army started wearing a knowing look itself. In Army Talk No. 180 soldiers not only are reminded that "the 'transitional' [Communist] dictatorship in Russia is still in effect after 30 years," but are plainly told that U.S. Communists, whose first loyalty is to the Soviet Union, now "seek the downfall of the American system of government." The new booklet's cover shows the hammer & sickle casting a dark shadow over the Statue of Liberty...
...French, Marshall's intimation that the U.S. was at last going to seek "a cure rather than a ... palliative" for Europe's troubles was the best news since the Allies landed in Normandy. It mattered little that le plan Marshall was vague."Today there is something new in the lives of Frenchmen," breathed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol...
Ackland's nieces & nephews rushed to court to seek the fortune they had given up as lost. The University of North Carolina (with the late Ambassador to Britain O. Max Gardner as lawyer) and Rollins (with ex-U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings) followed. First to lose out, after five years' litigation, were the nieces & nephews. That left the two colleges to fight it out between themselves...
...while books. The average college graduate is more than likely to limit his reading to the newspaper, the comic books, a picture magazine, a magazine of condensations, and the book elections of a commercial literary club. If college men & women haven't learned to read the originals, to seek out the significant, they are literate but ignorant. Which is better, a nation of illiterate wise men, or of literate ignoramuses? Must we be either...