Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half later, he stood up in the Senate and, in a speech that held the chamber spellbound, called for a postwar treaty with Great Britain and Russia to keep Germany and Japan forever disarmed. That was the day he challenged Franklin D. Roosevelt to seek not only peace but also peace with justice. That was the day the onetime isolationist assumed moral leadership of a new American internationalism...
Publicity-doting Hugh Dalton snuggled cosily into this rite. At his cottage in Wiltshire he posed with an armful of pussywillows. He walked the woods-"Before a budget I always seek out the trees." He listened to chirping birds, and he gathered violets and brought them to his office at 11 Downing Street. There, in his final hours of travail, he sat at a desk "overlooking the forsythia and almond blossoms in the garden of No. 10," reported London's Evening News...
Koerner himself had escaped in the nick of time. In 1938 he went to the U.S. to seek his fortune as a commercial artist, and never again heard from his family. Now 31 and a U.S. citizen, he illustrates pamphlets for the U.S. Military Government in Germany. Although his war posters had earned him a reputation as a designer, the intensely serious young painter Berliners were talking about last week was still unknown in the U.S. Koerner intended to change that; he refused to sell any of the paintings in his Berlin show. He was saving them...
...Arabs, in numerical majority in the Holy Land, and, perhaps, hoping for Russian votes in the special assembly, seek an independent Palestine-which would give them immediate control. This catastrophic plan will not be adopted, for the United States supports the British view that only an investigating committee be chosen now. But even this Anglo-American proposal is frustrating and inconclusive. Not only have numerous impartial groups submitted reports on Palestine in the past dozen years, (the most recent was the Anglo-American Commission on Inquiry last spring) but it has already been stated in the House of Lords that...
Mark: And entering into the sepulcher they saw a young man . . . and he saith unto them, "Be not affrighted: ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid...