Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small hours of the morning to check the White House situation room for cables about rescue operations and about troop casualty lists from Saigon. He stalks through the White House corridors, longingly paraphrasing to aides the World War II order that Franklin Roosevelt gave to General Eisenhower: "Seek out the German army and destroy it." He seems to be saying: If only Viet Nam were that simple...
...revolutionary regime was the first "honest, democracy-loving government in 5,000 years of Egyptian his tory." Nasser soon proved him wrong, but for years the personable, pro-Western Amin remained close to Egypt's strongman. He was sent to Beirut on a top-secret mission to seek an end to the Suez war, served as Nasser's adviser on a trip to the U.N. In 1962, long after all Cairo papers had been nationalized, Nasser signed a decree restoring him as publisher of his Al Akhbar (The News). Last week Amin, 51, was in prison, accused...
...Anglo-Maldivian relations." But even that did not seem very likely. Rather than join the worldwide stampede of newly emerging nations, the Maldives seem intent on submerging. They are not going to join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader who has set himself up in business in Ceylon...
...Grandfather's music had always attracted a mentally perverted fringe and those in search of ersatz sex," Wieland says. "But even though the sensual character of his music still drives his fans to semi-craziness, those who seek his sex and not his soul get an incomplete experience...
Fortunately he was abnormally bright and abnormally talented. He entered the University of Michigan at 15. Illness forced him to seek a more salubrious climate, however, so he transferred to the University of Miami, where he ran the school magazine, acted in plays, became a cheerleader, and earned part of his tuition by singing in a nightclub...