Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of his refusal, we believe it is not up to Furry to decide who is or is not a threat to the security of the nation. It is also not up to Senator McCarthy, and Furry's action in refusing to give names to such a careless publicity seeker was justified. But investigation is the job of the FBI and Furry had a duty as a citizen to reveal the names to that agency...
...Nauseam Hollywood has found that the best way to get the entertainment seeker away from the TV set, short of turning out better films, is to go after him in advertising copy-bombard him with sex, pound him with superlatives and stab him with exclamation points...
...pretty much on his own schedule. Since 1947 some 1,500 students have won their B.A.s there, and of these, 68% have gone on to graduate work. With that school, 200-year-old Columbia has rounded out the promise that President Barnard made nearly a century ago-that "no seeker after knowledge shall fail to find here what he requires, and . . . that no sincere and earnest seeker after knowledge, of whatever age, sex, race or previous condition, shall be denied the privilege of coming here...
Shortly after the press conference broke up, McCarthy handed his briefcase to the Wisconsin job seeker and trundled off to the house on Third Street, N.E., for chops and company...
...morning Naguib woke, switched on the radio and heard the surprising news: at 4 a.m. the R.C.C. had accepted his resignation and had named Nasser to his place as Premier. Over the air, Chief Propagandist Salah Salem painted Mohammed Naguib as never before−an ambitious, hypocritical, devious publicity seeker. Added Salem: Naguib was not "under arrest," but had merely been "asked to remain in his house a month...