Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they still feel that this is what they want, they certainly have an option-to move from West Berlin into East Germany, where the government would surely welcome them with open arms to offset, in a small way, the millions who, voting with their feet, left the East to seek protection under a system of government that allowed them the right of choice...
...think it is an outrage to normal society that the leading colleges and universities deliberately seek and honor the "oddball" candidate for admission. It is no wonder that these same institutions are plagued by sit-ins, riots, sex orgies and drugs, for this is the world of the oddball, who has no respect or responsibility toward law and order...
...break came at a point when Johnson and many of his countrymen had begun to despair that talks would ever get started. After the President's March 31 speech announcing a curtailment in the bombing of North Viet Nam?and his even more dramatic decision not to seek a second term?the U.S. officially proposed 15 sites* for talks, unofficially offered Hanoi a considerably longer shopping list. Hanoi rejected them all, steadfastly insisted that the U.S. choose between two venues that would be physically and psychologically unsuitable?the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, where neither Washington nor its Saigon ally...
...first, two weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued, Washington must somehow establish a more representative government in Saigon; military strategy must stress security for the population...
...Arizona's territorial days, then carried him to eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and seven more in the Senate. Now 90 and the nation's alltime congressional tenure champion with 56 years of service, Senator Carl Hayden has decided that he will not seek re-election this year...