Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floyd Stahl's charges will seek to repeat their sole win of the campaign tomorrow night when their Charles River, rivals travel here from M.I.T. to ring down the curtain on the current season. The Crimson downed, the Techmen, 52 to 47, in an earlier meeting on the losers' court...
...After the defeat of France in June 1940, for more than a year we stood alone. We kept nothing back in blood or effort or treasure from what has now become the common cause of more than 30 nations. We seek no territory; we covet no oilfields; we demand no bases for forces of air or of sea. We are an ancient Commonwealth dwelling and wishing to dwell at peace within our own habitations. . . . We have given and shall continue to give everything we have...
...target area until it had passed well out of range of the island's defenses." His mouth was dry ("spitting cotton"), his hands were drenched in icy sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left a deep impression; the idea of having nothing to do but watch and wait was not appealing...
Navy Liberators from the MacArthur command ranged as far as Formosa, seek ing out forces which the Japs might be moving south for defense of Luzon...
After the Fact. House leaders moved quickly to pick up the pieces. To keep Rankin from exercising the balance of power, if he should be placed on the committee, the membership was fixed at six Democrats, three Republicans. Rankin was scarcely expected to seek the chairmanship. To do so he would have to give up his chairmanship of the Committee on Veterans' Legislation. The rest was up to the House, which would control the committee's membership and its funds...