Word: seek
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Savoretti first visited the U.S.S.R. in 1954 as a representative of Britain's Lamberton & Co., maker of rolling mills and forging presses. Before leaving for Moscow, he suggested to several Italian businessmen that he might seek out commercial opportunities for their companies. The Italians were interested-but, at that point, the Russians were not. "I discovered that the Soviet Union was an important market," says Savoretti, "but that Italy was known for its music and art and literature-not for its industry...
...Wisconsin nominating committee was divided on what other candidates to place on the ballot. Nixon, Romney, California Governor Ronald Reagan and, as always, Harold Stassen, were accepted as "generally advocated or recognized" possibilities. So were Rockefeller and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, though both immediately announced that they would seek to have their names removed...
Such restriction is often beneficial. At its best, it amounts to a requirement for valid explanation, for honest justification of U.S. actions. But as Lyndon Johnson continues to seek a consensus of approval, he remains a prisoner of critics who are often capricious. Many of the same people who urged Franklin Roosevelt to come to the aid of the Spanish Republic and fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War now call for a retreat from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military...
Dossiers & Photographs. The city dwellers learned in the Communist offensive what South Viet Nam's peasants have long recognized: the Communists' ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as well as police and government officials and their families. In Saigon, a band of Viet Cong seized several civilians, including a Korean newspaperman and the information officer of the Korean embassy, blindfolded them and summarily shot them in a Cholon street...
...questioning not only why the Selective Service System wants you, but why the draft exists at all, you can be confident that the President has a clear grasp of its purpose. He has said, "Because of the conditions of the world we live in now, we must continue to seek one form of service--military duty--of our young men. We would be an irresponsible nation if we did not--and perhaps even an extinct...