Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the election was more like a ritual slaughter. Outgoing Mayor Theodore McKeldin, a former Maryland Governor and another moderate Republican, made a last-minute decision last spring not to seek re-election-likely because he saw he would lose. Lawyer Sherwood stepped into the breach, then quarreled with McKeldin during the campaign. Backed by the Baltimore Council of A.F.L.-C.l.O. Unions, D'Alesandro rolled easily into his father's office and, behind him, the Democrats won every elective municipal post...
...Friends have never tried to do this, I in fact assume (and the Career Plans Office confirms) that such recruitment would be sanctioned just as the Marines' or Dows' or Colgate's would be. But while the secondary privilege of recruiting is thus guaranteed, were the AFSC to seek a platform for the presentation of ideas here it would need the protecting cover of a student group's sponsorship to be welcomed. Indeed, with a group of our own Faculty, sought last year to co-sponsor with the Quakers a conference at Harvard on Conscription, university facilities were denied them...
...Scots are using their centuries-old cultural heritage and the undeniable attractions of their land as bait to at tract scientists and executives. They have thus managed to reverse the brain drain that traditionally drove Scotland's brightest sons to seek fortunes abroad...
...basic right of the university's students to express their views on all matters and demonstrate in "an orderly fashion." But he warned that they must not "become so carried away by their conviction about the Tightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them. This kind of conduct is simply unacceptable, not only in a community devoted to intellectual endeavor, but in any decent democratic society...
This switch of allegiance reflects the fact that the children don't think. They don't seek explanations, meditate, choose camps. They get emotionally attached and become zealots. Actually they're fanatics. There's a Cotton Mather, a medium and a high priestess in the group. The children take life hard themselves; they make it hell for others...