Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberties of our people?" No, he answered, urging that the K.K.K. be investigated forthwith by the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Honest men may differ in the precise limitations of the word 'un-American,' but surely all agree that the activities which by force and violence seek to deprive others of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution are un-American...
...North Viet Nam deserves bombing, then such action should logically follow every large Viet Cong victory. By construing the air strikes as retaliation, Secretary McNamara is directly equating South Vietnamese civil war with North Vietnamese aggression, an equation unsupported by evidence and indicating that the United States does indeed "seek a wider...
...comparison, faceless and mediocre. Churchill was an aristocrat, a brilliant dilettante, a creator in a dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
However honest, that was an oddly revealing statement, for according to the bar's canons of professional ethics, the great goal of prosecutors is always to seek justice rather than merely to compile convictions. Meanwhile, New York's Police Commissioner Michael...
Some students seek to mitigate the trauma of organic chemistry by taking it in summer when it is supposedly easier. (It is not so, incidently, unless you thrive on two hours of class and six of lab every day). One can also spread the load, splitting lectures and laboratories, making it less difficult to receive an honor grade...