Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement referring to Thailand, you do General Chalermchai Charuvastr an injustice. He did not use "the influence of his office" to "expand his salary." General Chalermchai did not seek office with us. Inter-Continental urged his election to its board as Thailand's Director of Tourism to represent the government, along with the Minister of Finance and other prominent officials. Over the seven years and four months that General Chalermchai has served on the board, his remuneration has averaged less than $1,250 a year-a nominal sum for his invaluable advice and assistance...
...this urban coalition decisively commit themselves to assist the deprived to achieve full participation in the economy as self-supporting citizens. We propose to initiate an allout attack on unemployment through the following steps: > In cooperation with government, to move systematically and directly into the ghettos and barrios to seek out the unemployed and underemployed and enlist them. We will re-evaluate our current testing procedures and employment standards so as to modify or eliminate those practices and requirements that unnecessarily bar many persons from gainful employment or union membership...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sophia Loren, as a gangster's widow, and Anthony Quinn, her lover, seek to establish a lasting relationship despite the protests of her rebellious teen-age son in The Black Orchid (1959). Repeat...
...other-worldly predecessors, in southern churches and in storefronts in northern ghettoes, sought salvation in the God manufactured for the black slave by his master; He who promised "pie in the sky, after you die." Wright and his colleagues do not mince words: the God in which they seek redemption, He whom they rhetorically call upon to help them help themselves, is a God of "power, of majesty, of might...
...writings in this area, it comes closet to setting the tone and parameters within which such a program might be created. The most staid of the Black Power advocates. Floyd McKissick, and Wright are in some sense transitional men. They articulate grievances and point the way for change. They seek to mobilize the resources of the entire Negro community, impossible as it may seem, in a first plunge into group politics and economic activity--a plunge for which neither immediate success nor immediate failure is indicated...