Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes are being hired for the first time as clerks, policemen, nurses in white hospitals and teachers in white schools. Boston's Negro newspaper has six pages of want ads for everybody from laboratory technicians to plasma physicists. In Milwaukee, Chicago and Providence, corporations have joined together to seek ways of finding more Negro workers and executive trainees; in Minneapolis, Omaha and San Francisco, corporate recruiters flock to interview thousands of Negroes at "job fairs." A dozen recently created personnel agencies specialize in Negroes, and almost every Negro graduate with a good college record can count on from three...
...words and clearly establish a fundamental policy priority: that the military war, though it is not to be abandoned, is to be subordinated to the objective of peace. Simple slip-ups, such as simultaneous gestures of deescalation and announcements of arms increases, must be stopped. The policy specifically should seek to satisfy two broad objectives...
...policy must also be able to endure over an extended period of time. Americans customarily demand quick results: the "hawks" talk of sharp escalation by more bombing, and the "doves" seek an "imaginative" peace offensive. This inclination for bold moves reflects a misunderstanding of good diplomacy and raises unrealistic expectations. Especially in the light of past confusion, even a significant U.S. peace move might not elicit an immediate response from North Vietnam. The United States must be patient, and the President must be ready to wait -- and convince others to wait -- for a response...
...whether or not we can make them understand what our point of view is," said Seidman. He also said the delegation of Dems would ask the school committee to seek an advisory opinion from the Cambridge city solictor...
Speakers chairman James Roosevelt '68 said that the civil liberties group is eager to seek court action and that both CLUM chairman Howard S. Whitside and Young Dem advisor Robert G. McCloskey '46 think the club has a good chance to win if they decide...