Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank O'Connor, 56, New York City Council president, became the fourth Democrat to seek his party's blessing to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick...
...would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
...Some seek physical solutions-better-planned cities, apartment buildings with thicker walls, atrium houses that turn their backs on the street, telephones that truly turn off. Others seek psychological solutions: psychiatric therapy to make up for the loss of privacy, or the secular equivalent of religious retreats...
...ultimate in snob appeal," said Daniel R. Bronson '67, a friend of Nightingale's and a proud toter of the button, "or it is a desperate attempt to seek one's own level...
Approached last fall to seek the nomination, Thomas Boylston Adams--a member of the "royal line" that descends from John and John Quincy--agreed to run if $100,000 could be raised. George Somarippa, who had managed the Hughes campaign, set out to meet Adams' requirement, and in February it was made official. But for one reason or another, the campaign didn't really get underway until mid-June, when more than a dozen workers moved into headquarters on Washington St. and began to concentrate on gathering 10,000 valid signatures needed to put Adams on the primary ballot...