Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dyslexia is often a contributing cause of people's need to seek welfare aid. In a program for education of adult, unemployed heads of household, we have found that about 31% of the enrollees have dyslexia. By adapting teaching methods and materials developed for individual tutoring, we have been able to teach these people, in a group, to learn to read and write, which is obviously essential for participation in the "basics" education classes...
...explanation was offered by Psychiatrist John P. Shovlin, superintendent of the state hospital where Hollenbaugh had been confined. Recalling him as a typically "shy, meek" schizophrenic who "was always retreating," Shovlin noted: "These people find it painful to associate with people of their own age. They sometimes seek the companionship of someone much younger...
...will watch for signs that the younger technocrats in the Chinese government are making any headway against the insistence on doctrinal purity, as the technocrats have done in Russia. Will the successors of Mao, involved with their own problems, retreat in the face of American power in Viet Nam, seek a compromise with the Russians, adopt a less inflammatory international stance, be less adamant about Taiwan...
...believe that the Negro's struggle for equality in America is essentially revolutionary. While most Negroes unquestionably seek only to enjoy the fruits of American society as it now exists, their quest cannot objectively be satisfied within the framework of existing political and economic relations...
Since Cody had already replaced 35 other overage pastors, many Catholics agreed that he could hardly fail to seek Sheil's retirement as well. Nonetheless, there were plenty of complaints about the abrupt manner of the dismissal from priests and laymen who felt more comfortable under the free-and-easy regime of the late Albert Cardinal Meyer...