Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the press section of the Foreign Ministry, able, thirtyish Constantine Zinchenko is the man who accredits or bars foreign correspondents who seek entry to Moscow, though the MGB (formerly NKVD) are finally responsible for keeping the foreign press colony so small. From their first day in Moscow, when they formally present their credentials to him, correspondents must deal with Zinchenko if they want interviews, transportation, stoves for their rooms, extra food, or transfer from one Metropole Hotel room to another...
...Sleep. Humphrey Bogart & wife (Lauren Bacall) play hide-&-seek with sudden death (TIME...
Most Canadians reacted the way they always do when union with the U.S. is proposed. At Kenora, Ont., George Barrett, Attorney General of Illinois, told an audience of Rotarians that Canadians should break their "sentimental" ties with Great Britain and seek statehood south of the border. Indignant citizens were baying at his heels before he could say "George Washington...
...seems to me that the Crimson editorialist has been confused by talk of "buyers' strikes" and consumers' self-discipline. AVC has urged people not to overpay, to seek to force prices down. But we do not urge poor people to do without milk for their children because the price has gone up. Nor do we ask veterans to do without education because it costs more to attend college...
...wireless set at all, we have to pay ?1 to the BBC, and we have to take what the BBC gives us, whether we like it or not. . . . There must be few healthy people who would not like to try their hand at broadcasting occasionally. . . . Others may seek their whole livelihood from it. Try the BBC, and no doubt you will get a fair hearing. But if you fail . . . you are finished...