Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of Jan. 2, clasping a long bamboo pole in his right hand and flanked by four companions, Gandhi set out on a walking tour of Bengal's Noakhali district. On his "last and greatest" experiment, the Mahatma said he would visit 26 Moslem villages, would seek to rekindle the lamp of "neigh-borliness" quenched in that area (and in much of India) by blood...
...East and parts of Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That job was one for future years; if Tinker Jimmy's dam held long enough, the U.S. would seek in better years bigger men than Jimmy for a bigger task...
...again acted on his promise. On Christmas Eve, in Frankfurt's icy-cold Römerberg Square, where once German emperors were crowned, General Joseph T. McNarney, European Theater Commander, announced an amnesty for 800,000 "lesser" Nazis. Purpose: to "encourage those who come under its terms to seek the ways of democracy...
...crawlers as Artist Thomas Hart Benton. Her black lace gowns, glistening bangs and the artificial flowers in her hair are as familiar to old-style jazz fans as the war memorial in Union Station Plaza. Visiting jazz greats, like Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Mildred Bailey and Bob Zerke, always seek her out when they hit town...
...sample committee operation was that on Louisville's county jail. The jailer came to the first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public credit to the jailer...