Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this glare, New Yorkers could now seek relief from their normal confusion among Republicans, Democrats, American Laborites, Liberals, Fusionists, Socialists, Socialist-Laborites and Communists - if they were so minded...
...ever lived. Directly or indirectly he influenced the life of every U.S. town boy born between 1870 and 1900. Farm boys had less time and money for fiction, but if they did read stories, they read Alger; thousands of them imitated his heroes by going to Manhattan to seek their fortunes. But Alger's books lost most of their public during World War I and the rest of it during the '20s. In the Capone or quick-money era, boys were not attracted by titles like Plan and Prosper, Slow and Sure, Work...
...seek to excuse the old Marshal but let us have the courage to say that he did not inaugurate a policy but rather that he was the culmination of a policy. ... If we deserved to have Pétain, we deserved also, thank God, to have De Gaulle. The spirit of abandonment and the spirit of resistance-both are incarnated in Frenchmen, and these two spirits met in a duel of death. . . . Since the most modest among us shared the glory of the first resister, let us not shrink from the thought that a part of ourselves was an accomplice...
Sociologists and psychologists seek her "expert guidance" and learn, from the filly's mouth, that she likes privacy, pinups, shelves for doodads, lolling interminably at telephones and in bathtubs. She also likes "slumber parties" (which are talkative rather than slumberous) with wolf-cubs whistling below the windows. She does not care to look old or sophisticated, uses simple cosmetics (but pays elaborate attention to shades of lipstick), and saves her dignity for formal dances. She reads much in magazines, little in newspapers or books. She is hep to new records and takes an occasional turn at baby-sitting...
...surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement it without delivering India to confusion and turmoil...