Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidency, General MacArthur said: "I can only say, as I have said before, I have not sought the office, nor do I seek...
...Parade. The Congressman's one best chance to peek into the workings of the powerful little group that runs the Navy comes when the admirals seek funds. In wartime Congress invariably writes this group a blank check, and so the lean, bald top dog, Admiral Ernest J. King, conceded, while contending that the money is spent carefully ("I'm a taxpayer, too"). But at committee hearings the people's representatives can give the admirals some uneasy moments...
...token of his good will, Mr. Hull said he would seek participation of Congress, on a bi-partisan basis, in the formulation of policy at the proper time...
...While professing to seek the establishment of democracy in countries liberated from Fascism, the Soviet Government at home has failed to take a single serious step toward granting elementary liberties to the Russian people...
...shifting Socialist André Le Trocquer from the Committee's Commission for War and Air to a new Commission for Liberated Territories, which will establish headquarters in London, seek to administer France in the wake of Allied invasion...