Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...
Furthermore, the President has not convinced those nations that attended the Manila conference -- and the General is supposed to visit them --that the United States does not seek a purely military solution. Regrettably, Eisenhower has gone on record in favor of "whatever is necessary" to "win" the war. His mission to the Far East will do nothing to change the unfortunate impression of most Asians that America wants only to defeat Communists...
...containing a newly developed lethal poison have been dropped from planes onto rabbit-infested areas of New South Wales, a technique that has effected a 90% kill in some areas. The trouble is that most of Australia's rabbits have proved unwilling to leave their immediate territory to seek out poisoned bait. And since the poison-spreading planes can cover only limited areas, this rabbit reticence has severely limited the effectiveness of the poison campaign...
...extended into the ranks of student "radicals." They did not dislike him; Frank and the young leftists just didn't know each other very well. Many of Frank's undergraduate connections are in Winthrop House, never known as a bastion of radicalism. Moreover, Frank was not tempermentally inclined to seek out students on the left. Though he worked in Mississippi for COFO in the summer of 1964, he had not, like many civil rights workers, cut his ties with conventional politics. Far from it, he remained a Regular Democrat (capital R and capital D), even if a very liberal...
...lottery presumably would provide a mechanism for separating, among the men capable of service, those who go to the military from those who will be allowed to pick alternatives. But McNamara indicated that he prefered the separation to be made by choice, not by chance. Young men should seek opportunities for service outside the military, he said, suited to their particular skills and interests." The lottery "hasn't been discussed much" in government circles...