Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth of the pietistic, back-to-the-Bible Brethren movement in Germany-a reaction against the still remembered horrors of the Thirty Years' War and the spiritual rigidities of the established Protestant churches. The desire to pursue their separate ways in peace led all three groups to seek freedom in the New World...
...goals are the same as many nonreligious Vietnik protesters, the peace churches generally disapprove of activities that clearly violate U.S. law, such as draft dodging and burning Selective Service registration cards. "This is exhibitionism," says Francis Brown, general secretary of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. The peace-churchmen seek only to live to the letter of Christ's injunction (in Luke: 6: 27-29): "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also...
...corner office, a comfortable $13,000 salary, and a sense of frustration. "The superficial little plays on words, the tired old turns of phrase that might seem something new to a little girl fresh out of Smith or Vassar-they were old hat to me." Mrs. Sadow quit to seek a master's degree in library service at Columbia, where at first she found studies so difficult that she "went home and cried every day." She stuck it out, today has a $6,250 job on the reference desk of the main New York Public Library, where she fields...
...foaming at the mouth." Disturbed by this overdrawn image, the Texas White House began issuing denials. The President's temper, said his aides, was quite cool. The stockpile meeting, announced Press Secretary Bill Moyers, was one of a series that had begun in January with industry representatives to seek a long-range plan to dispose of surplus aluminum...
Number three and his friends are leisured little gentlemen of Japan who, finding reality annulled by affluence, seek the meaning of life in the experience of crime. After practicing on the kitten, these terrible tykes go looking for a human victim, and number three knows just the man: the handsome young ship's officer his mother is going to marry. One day he invites the officer on a picnic with his pals. "I'll take care of the sleeping pills," says...