Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maynard planned his study program carefully over the summer. He wrote some academic friends and told them he wanted to study urban problems and automation. "I got back reading lists, guidance, and advice on which professors to seek out and which to avoid," he said. When he got here he enrolled in the speed reading course offered by the Bureau of Study Counsel...
Thus Professor Stuart Hughes, the Harvard historian, advised the United States in his book An Approach to Peace to seek "a new model for foreign policy in the experience of Sweden or of Switzerland or even India." He added that he had "toyed" with the idea that the United States should unilaterally declare itself first among the neutrals; but "in reality we do not need to go that far. The events of the next generation will doubtless do it for us." The mission of the American intellectual, as Hughes saw it, was to do what the Asians and Africans...
...great ecumenical, theological, and social changes that are pushing their religions into the modern secular world. The number of other people who might be drawn into the excitement seems almost immaterial to them, just so the excitement is there for them and the few students who actively seek...
...advisers were closeted in the White House discussing which targets to bomb, how hard to hit, when to start. Militarily, limited bombing of the North could have only limited results. Still, its renewal signified in a much broader sense that the U.S., having gone to extraordinary lengths to seek peace in Viet Nam, was now prepared to win the war for that unhappy country...
...Lehman withdrew his name from a second pro-Johnson ad. Kupferman explained hastily that it would be "unthinkable" for the U.S. to dishonor its commitment. Each accused the other of "flipflopping" as they came out shoulder to shoulder in favor of continuing the war and all-out efforts to seek peace. In 1964 Lindsay got 71.5% of the vote and ran 91,000 ahead of his closest opponent. The plurality this time figures to be minuscule; the odds makers, like the voters, cannot see much space between the candidates...