Word: seek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drove to the farm community of Silverton (pop. 3,967), where 16 years earlier he had made his first campaign speech as a candidate for the state legislature. He held no formal press conference, went instead to a Kiwanis luncheon, where he barely mentioned his Senate candidacy. "I shall seek," his press release said, "to be a Senator of all the people." The announcement carried no indication of the candidate's party affiliation...
...Governor Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, who rose from a truck-driver's cab and the captivity of alcoholism to become a successful (and abstemious) Democrat in a traditionally Republican state, announced that he will seek a third two-year term rather than try to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Jack
...direction. When food riots broke out in 1964, Shastri wisely de-emphasized Nehru's overambitious industrialization schemes and gave top priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek the middle way," he declared. In fact, only in relations with Pakistan did Shastri take a hard line. When Ayub forced India's hand over Kashmir, the little Prime Minister responded with the might of his military...
...Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta's Yaméogo built himself a sumtuous country retreat with a swimming pool, while farmers still desperately seek water holes on the arid plains to keep their cattle from thirsting to death...
Later the ex-mayor implied that he would seek to link his action with a section of the City's charter which reads in part: "Neither the city council nor any of its committees or members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his removal from office by the city manager...