Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Africa asked for annexation of South West Africa, which she now holds under a League of Nations mandate. The Assembly found itself "unable to accede" to the request, politely asked South Africa to seek a trusteeship under the new arrangements...
...week's end another big batch of hopefuls arrived in Canada to seek just that. The Empire Brent pulled into Halifax with 831 brides and children aboard. All but 20 (headed for the U.S.) would settle in Canada, bring the number of the British brides and children who have arrived close...
...economy on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. They cite the end of price controls and the near-disastrous coal strike as examples of U.S. irresponsibility. This resentment is aggravated by what the British see as a U.S. effort to put on them all the blame for policies which seek a joint U.S.-British objective...
...make real contributions (or headlines) will have to do more than just go places. They will have to be willing and able to make scientific observations. "The forests of Brazil," says Explorer Andrews, "have been mapped from the air, but they are virtually unknown. Men will go there to seek medicinal plants, to study birds and animals and to learn about the forest peoples and their way of life...
...field is the world . . . my friends are all who believe in true democracy . . . my master is the common man. ... I seek no personal gain...