Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
...marks in his passbook. He needs one stamp to hold his job, another to maintain "temporary residence" in his African township, still others to allow his wife and children to live with him. If he loses his job, he must apply to the police for a stamped permit to seek work. If he wants to visit relatives in another city, he needs a stamp before he can get on the train. The government can cancel any of his stamps at any time for any reason, move him far away from his home, job and family. Above all, he must carry...
Reporting on and analyzing the major issues-economics, politics, civil rights, legal rights, international relations, war and peace-are the basics of our job. In dealing with both big and small questions, though, we seek to tell the story in human terms. Thus each week TIME has its cast of characters, some well known and some obscure, who are important or fascinating or perhaps both. In this week's cast...
...last year for a series of articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
...house of delegates further authorized a new A.B.A. Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, which Marden hailed as a means of encouraging public understanding that rights and duties go hand in hand. "It will seek to nurture a sense of responsibility on the part of lawyers in the recognition and enforcement of these rights and responsibilities," said Marden. "When legal rights are challenged or infringed, as Justice Jackson once observed, they are worth 'just what some lawyer makes them worth...