Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek our support, we have little to lend...
...ensure order, Rustin is arranging for nearly 1,500 black New York City policemen (known as "the Guardians") and firemen ("the Vulcans") to serve as marshals in Washington on the big day. On Capitol Hill, Abernathy and 20 sympathetic Congressmen agreed to set up six subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that they will push: President Johnson's program to build 6,000,000 homes for low-income families over the next decade, which last week was approved by the Senate; an Administration proposal to help industry create 500,000 jobs...
...tribute both to De Gaulle's courageous leadership and to France's good sense that the country now had the opportunity to seek those solutions not at the barricades, but by democratic process in a climate of civil peace...
Arab Exodus. For the first time in 20 years, the Gazans are allowed to travel outside the Strip. With Israeli encouragement, more than 30,000 of them have gone to seek jobs in Jordan or the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Arabs charge that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available...
...those who seek refuge in conventional words, a few are supplied. They are, however, often as inscrutable as the rest of the contents. In a dissertation on the virtues of silence, Writer Susan Sontag declares: "Notoriously, the sensuous, ecstatic translinguistic apprehension of the plenum can collapse in a terrible, almost instantaneous plunge into the void of negative silence." Actually, the ads that are stuffed into the box are as entertaining as anything else. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asks the Sierra Club, fighting a dam downstream from the Grand Canyon, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling...