Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence, we need only point to the cities like Boston, where there are many Catholic voters present, voters particularly sensitive to this issue. Boston, while supporting local aspirants Dever and Kennedy handsomely, helped sound the death-knell of Stevenson's candidacy. In Chicago, too, the local Democratic office-seeker, Dixon, fared better than his one-time boss. Moreover, reversing this analysis, a metropolis like Philadelphia, whose Catholic population looms less weighty in the vote tallies, and Pittsburgh like it delivered up their overwhelming Democratic majorities as usual. Clearly, it was the Reds-in-Government issue that caused this...
...Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish: "No, no, Mamie. That...
...freshman and sophomore at the College Conant roomed at 7 Linden Street. "Mrs Mooney's Palace of Pleasure" as it was called. His fellow pleasure-seeker John P. Marquand '15 glories in relating one of the main athletic diversions at 7 Linden, Called "the two beer dash," it consisted of rushing by subway into Boston, drinking two beers, and returning to Cambridge in the shortest possible time Conant's prowess in this field have not been recorded for posterity, but he has always been recorded for posterity, but he has always been known as a capable athlete...
...educator in the usual sense: he never drafted a college catalogue or worried about a football team. He writes too well, and has made too much money writing, to be accepted by scholars as one of themselves. He has been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people...
...Rogers Herod, president of the International General Electric Company, began the meeting by saying that the increase in manufacturing abroad has put the United States in great need for men in manufacturing abroad. There is just as much room for the intelligent job-seeker abroad as there is at home, he said...