Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance, told the country that the events in Communist China and Moscow were "large and full of meaning," but "they do not change our basic policy." Later in the week, he told newsmen that "divisions and suspicions among our people will only open the doors for those adversaries who seek to divide us and to weaken our leadership. There must be no misunderstanding of America's purpose and there must be no miscalculation of America's will...
...Negro struggle for civil rights. In the House of Deputies, delegates easily quashed a proposal by Southern churchmen to withdraw from the National Council because of its stands against school prayer and for civil rights. But the deputies compromised their support of the Council by urging Episcopal representatives "to seek to restrain the N.C.C. from efforts to influence specific legislation." Also in the interests of Southern harmony, lay deputies voted down a resolution, previously passed by the bishops, that recognized "the right of any person for reasons of conscience to disobey" laws that are "in basic conflict with the concept...
...program that the University might seek to enter entails remedial-education classes, pre-school clinics, slum clearance, and work training. Over 250 cities, counties, and private groups have already requested funds for such activities...
...interest at all on their oil millions. In Beirut's amazingly liquid and fast-moving money market, the bankers quickly pump their funds into short-term loans at up to 12%, finance everything from Pakistani exports and Saudi imports to local ski resorts and new cars. They seek to combine security with the plump profits of quick turnover, shun long-term credits or collateral-free personal loans...
...tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill is a haiku that the Japanese masters might be proud of. But he believed that "in our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action...