Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled at the short memory of those who forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...
...campaign, Lindsay even went politicking at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach in bathing trunks, grinning and shouldering his way bare-chested through the crowds-just as President Kennedy had done on a California beach in 1962. Lindsay eventually carried his activities beyond the beach; he continued to seek hands to shake among a few startled citizens while he was nude in the dressing-room shower...
Commenting on De Gaulle's decision to seek re-election, Francon, a native of France, explained that "France's foreign problems are so grave that she must have a strong man at the helm." De Gaulle must be re-elected, he said, because "there is no one who could receive at much support from the French people as he probably will...
...Governor's refusal to sign questionable legislation has given rise to the gibe that Rosellini has been succeeded by "another Italian, Danny Veto." On a more constructive level, Evans has promoted interstate cooperation with Oregon, Idaho and Montana, traveled from Boston to Tokyo to seek trade and new industry, pared 1,200 jobs from the state payroll, and reduced the state deficit...
...American Civil Liberties Union, argued in the affirmative. "The right to acquire a home historically has been considered as basic to life as the right to acquire food," declared Selvin. Nonetheless, he said, California has erected "a shield for racial discrimination" by denying court relief for Negroes when they seek to buy a house in a generally white neighborhood...