Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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K.S.C.'s students would have none of it. Hastily, they organized a fund-raising drive called "Project S O S" and dashed off thousands of letters to prospective donors. They manned telephones for 100 hours running, composed radio appeals, dispatched one member to Manhattan to seek foundation money, even sent another to Las Vegas to knock on Howard Hughes's gilded door. Neither traveler succeeded, but their enterprise made such an impression on K.S.C. Board Chairman L. LeRoy Highbaugh Jr., who made millions in real estate, that he donated $800,000 to the salvage effort...
...some point for a term or more. They may take a job or wander about, possibly get their Army service over with, and then ordinarily they return with stronger motivation and refreshed energies, to graduate and to go on to the next step in their careers. Partly they seek to break the routine of study in this way, but many also want the opportunity for encounters with other kinds of people, other ways of life. Sometimes, of course, for both the students and non-students, the desire to press, extend, and expand oneself takes the form of experiments with drugs...
...Connally's virulent unpopularity among the state's sizable Mexican-American population, apparently merely shrugged and said: "John, it's up to you." So John decided to quit. In Texas, where party politics is only slightly more refined than saloon fighting, his decision not to seek re-election was an invitation to a bare-knuckled brawl...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) announced yesterday that he will seek the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination in at least four presidential primaries. He will run in Wisconsin, Oregon, California, and Nebraska...
...women are not in the headlines (as any reader of her fine first novel The Evening of the Holiday might easily guess). They are the secretaries, the personnel people, the heads of committees who keep the files bursting and the memoranda flying, and the earnest subordinates who seek to notch their way to a level where they too can dictate memoranda...