Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both come out of our citadels and seek to negotiate new arrangements...
...VENEZUELA, the oil-fueled economy continues to grow stronger, but President Raúl Leoni's soldiers are having trouble with the Castroite FALN guerrillas, who have now spread into eight of the country's 20 states. Last year the Castroites were content to play hide-and-seek with the army. Now they are growing bolder, recently ambushed an army patrol near the Maracaibo oilfields, killing three soldiers and wounding...
...odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge was written into the Democratic platform...
Hoping for bigger and better issues, S.F.U. appointed a committee to seek new problems to protest. One student found a long-forgotten and never-used rule under which the university could eject a student without explanation. That also proved to be a nonissue. "I don't see any point in keeping the regulation on the books either," said University Vice President R. Lee Hornbake, "and we are getting...
Completing eleventh grade at 15 with just five 1924 classmates-every one of whom, surprisingly, went on to college -Lyndon disappointed his parents by not turning immediately to college. Instead, as he told a recent graduating class at Johnson City High, he "headed West to seek the fame and fortune that I knew America offered." Less grandly, that meant that he and a few buddies piled into a rattletrap car early one morning and stole away to California. Twenty months later, totally broke, he hitchhiked home, worked on a road gang under a searing sun for a dollar...