Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man of whom Novelist John Dos Passes once wrote this passionate paragraph was John Dos Passes. Fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough to satisfy his rage to live, John Dos Passes has hurried about the world, a perennial seeker after the truth about his time...
...make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...
...Rocket Seeker. Project Cyclone has solved many problems before they ever came up in actuality. It advised the Navy, for instance, not to try to launch certain jet fighters from the deck of a pitching carrier. The computer proved that they were much too likely to go in the drink. It worked out the "hydrodynamic" behavior of unbuilt submarines. It predicted the speed at which the wings of new aircraft would begin to flutter dangerously...
...under unearthly neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses...
About 200 students and teachers in the University applied this year. The Institute of International Education then nominated 38 of these men for awards. After nomination, the Fulbright seeker must be approved by the State Department and placed in a foreign university by the U.S. Education Foundation. It is expected that about 25 more of the present nominees will receive notification of their awards in the next two or three weeks...