Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a potential job-seeker registers at the Placement Office, he makes out a standard form and receives in return a booklet on vocational counseling prepared under Teele's direction...
...friend who had influenced him most. By Lawrence's will he eventually got Mt. Vernon; the Virginia Council and Governor Dinwiddie also gave him a job as adjutant and the rank of major which Lawrence had held in the militia. Two years later, the serious, acquisitive money seeker became the watchdog of a 350-mile frontier harried by French and Indians...
...cheese lover can find good sharp Cheddar almost everywhere. For the more discriminating, there is the smelly but mild-tasting Oka made by Trappist monks near Montreal. Alberta offers the value-seeker a platter-filling Gold Medal Ranch steak for $1. And for those who go to Canada for unusual foods and not the scenery, a Flin Flon café can rustle up a gamy beavertail soup, and a Val d'Or café can do wonders with bear paws...
...spiritual "seeker," the FBI man was merely checking up on a former Pendle Hill student who was being offered a Government job. * A church derived from a group of 17th Century Arminians...
...comes along and combs his beard with his hand and says: 'Children, neither to the right nor to the left: the golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...