Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rattle, Rattle. To Lyndon, who left the land to seek his fortune elsewhere and came back in style, the hill country now means mostly the 400-acre LBJ Ranch on the banks of the Pedernales...
...torpedo can be launched either from aircraft or surface ships. It dives to a preset depth, speeds around in large circles, using secret, supersophisticated devices to seek out an enemy sub. If it finds nothing, the Mark-46 switches to "active echo ranging," breaks its circular pattern and snakes zigzag through the water like a hunter stalking a deer. Once the enemy is located, the torpedo homes in with its sonar...
...decision does not automatically end local prosecution of sit-in cases; civil rights lawyers may have to seek dismissal in specific cases. Yet it does mean that a great variety of civil rights advocates-ranging from Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 73-year-old mother of Massachusetts' lame-duck Governor, to Mardon Walker, a 19-year-old daughter of a white Navy captain, no longer need fear confinement. Said a relieved Miss Walker in New London, Conn., where she is a student at Connecticut College: "I somehow felt that I would never have to serve 18 months in jail for trying...
After Spain's General Francisco Franco told Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, 69, to stop meddling in Argentine politics or get out of Spain, those close to Perón felt that pride would force the aging exile to seek asylum elsewhere. But life is good at Perón's opulent villa in Madrid, and for the moment at least comfort overcame pride. Last week Perón surrendered to Franco's terms, solemnly promising to abstain from all political skulduggery "while I remain in this country...
...nature of the church: not the "repository of the saved" but what Editor Stephen Rose of the Chicago monthly Renewal calls "a community of people, no better than anybody else, but who are trying to be the light of the world." It is a church, Rose adds, that must seek, through service, "to become the center of life, rather than what it now seems to many: a peripheral institution...