Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip is a very highly paid civil servant [at $120,000 a year] who is expected to keep his nose out of politics." Worried Lord Brockway, chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom: "The Duke has unhappily given encouragement to Mr. Smith, whose whole strategy is to seek delay...
...successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with a hereditary disease, another for inheriting unfortunate family characteristics; one for being born into a large and destitute family, another because a parent has an unsavory reputation...
...population or boundaries or what country you are choosing to attack." That, he said, "is not the policy of the Administration." Its position, he went on, "is that we should stay there, that we should do our part as may become necessary, do only what is necessary, and seek constantly, as we have for months and months and months, to find a way to get this dangerous and difficult business to the conference room...
...slumlords to loan sharks. Said Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach: Lawyers' ethical standards "have served us well and will continue to do so, but I cannot believe their purpose is to prevent legal services from being offered to individuals who desperately need them but do not know how to seek them...
...Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who landed in 1956 with the original 81-man band of insurgents, quickly emerged as Castro's closest confidant and jack of all trouble (TIME cover, Aug. 8, 1960). Che was the brain behind Castro's hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics during the revolution; after the takeover, Castro made him Cuba's economic czar, first as head of the National bank and later as Minister of Industries, put him in charge of exporting Castroite subversion throughout Latin America, sent him on trips abroad to beat the drums for Communist...