Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irony is that Americans should have to seek such assurances. In the postwar years when Western Europe's very life depended on the continuing commitment of U.S. troops and dollars, Washington's credibility was not questioned. Is it when Santa moves on to the next house that he becomes unreal...
Soon after New Year's, Johnson will have to decide whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...
First came last October's startling memorandum from the West German Evangelical Church partly justifying the loss of the Oder-Neisse region in terms of German war guilt. More recently, it has been the Polish Catholics who have seemed to seek a new basis for understanding...
...Atwood, Tulane's Herbert Longenecker and Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show up in the rear ranks in national ratings, the ratings measure the wrong things...
...shoved aside a group of what he calls "old butts"-political types paid administrative salaries to perform mainly clerical chores. He brought in a "cabinet" of five imaginative administrators, four of them from out of state. He was criticized for paying one assistant $15,000 a year just to seek foundation support-until the assistant netted $600,000 in grants within six months...