Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst effect of all this clashing of wills and systems is not, it seems to me, that the enemy may take brief comfort in the spectacle, but that future relations between America and Britain and restored France may be permanently injured, and that France will seek comfort from Russia for the unreasoning and insulting attitude taken by her Western Allies. However foolish it may seem to us, France can and will take offense at America's patronizingly superior attitude toward a proud and unhumbled people...
Other candidates were not playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...Shall we seek for communion of souls...
...emergency opens up all the reservoirs of fear. The answer to fear is action. In some women it becomes an obsession, with a strong sense of guilt and the need to sacrifice themselves in the general cause. Their suffering and heroism may be intense. They seek jobs at the battlefronts, often try to forget their fear by drinking and sexual promiscuity. In other women the reaction is hysterical, involving rebellion against authority, especially against mothers. They are driven to seek experience, including sexual dangers...
...Some 400,000 studious U.S. fighting men may seek postwar underclass credits for correspondence and self-teaching courses of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (TIME, Feb. 21). Typical of the Institute's daily ton of letters was that of Brooklyn-born Ensign Frank William Gardner, whose new PC boat is one of the first two U.S. warships with Negro crews. Wrote he: "They are aware . . . that the spotlight . . . shines directly on them. . . . Nearly all ... have shown excited interest [in] the Institute and the opportunities [for] correspondence courses, high-school . . . and college credit...