Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...
Khrushchev himself had rarely bubbled so with glee. A half dozen times in the past year, he had hinted at, demanded and cajoled visitors for an invitation to the U.S., and now that he had it, he was a status-seeker who had got what he sought...
...most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker of God who does not know where to look. Says another character in The Possessed: "When he believes, he does not believe that he believes, and when he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe...
...size of the labor force increases, the number of jobless can also increase, as happened last month, even when the number of employed takes a big jump. Economists would like the Census Bureau to add more questions to separate the laid-off worker from the new job seeker. But so far the Census Bureau has said no; it fears any change will destroy the month-by-month continuity of its figures...
...result, Hoskin, 47, was nearly $50,000 richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer...