Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs, they raised the possibility of direct conflict between the superpowers in that volatile area. During the campaign Nixon urged that the U.S. help keep Israel militarily strong enough to ensure its survival-a recommendation that has, naturally, annoyed the Arabs. To reopen communications with both sides and seek out possible paths to reconciliation, Nixon has assigned Pennsylvania's former Governor Scranton to undertake a ten-day tour of the area beginning this week...
...strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike and still be able to devastate the attackers, with a margin of safety added-is passe. A secure second-strike capacity, he insists, is all the U.S. can realistically seek...
...from the patterns that prevailed as recently as 1960. As Harvard Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger noted in the Brookings study: "The United States is no longer in a position to operate programs globally; it has to encourage them. It can no longer impose its preferred solution; it must seek to evoke it. We are a superpower physically, but our designs can be meaningful only if they generate willing cooperation." And, in view of the present mood of the U.S., willing cooperation in new foreign-policy ventures will have to begin at home...
...living organisms appeared in the seas billions of years ago, they seemed driven by an instinctive urge to move beyond their own environment. Out of the dark waters they groped across aeons, toward the light and land and air. Like those remote ancestors, man, too, has striven continually to seek what he has never known before. He has ranged restlessly across the surface of his world; he has traveled back into the primordial oceans; he has learned to fly through his now familiar skies. For the past seven years, he has probed the vacuum of space, soaring as high...
...convicted man may also seek a Governor's pardon...