Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This treaty probably includes an invitation to whatever is left of postwar Poland to join Czecho-Slovakia and Russia in a Slavic union. But Czecho-Slovakia has no great yen to deal with the present, anti-Russian Polish Government in Exile, and may first seek and get some sort of political and economic union with liberated Austria...
...will make it an enduring peace. We recognize fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make a peace which will command the good will of the world and banish war for many generations. We have surveyed the problems of the future. We shall seek the cooperation of all nations, large and small, whose people are dedicated to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance. We will welcome them as they may choose to come into a world family of democratic nations. We look to the day when all peoples of the world...
...Russians, most of them elderly, their faces drawn, stiff, heartbroken, seek among frozen corpses for those who were dear to them. In an intensifying series, the shots show: a dead mother and baby, so frozen that the child's head stands rigid in the air above her bosom; an old woman, crying and stupefied, trying to limber the upthrust frozen arm of a dead...
...seek invitations to dances and capers. At such times as these, you can bet Beacon Hill...
...that this should weaken the demand for justice. The most characteristic feature of Christian love is precisely that it exists full and entire without receding in the slightest from righteousness. It is a fundamental Biblical concept that God is all justice and all love. In this case love would seek atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent...