Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader, and he doesn't seek it. The D S G. [Democratic Study Group, a liberal COalition] has fallen apart. The Southern bloc is without a leader. A legislative vacuum is developing...
...political reform within the Communist movement. The diversity of Communist parties, the lack of relevance of the doctrine to specific problems, and the internal pressures?economic, military and political?within the Soviet Union have raised the question: What is Communism today? Some Kremlinologists suggest that the best way to seek an answer is to view the Soviet Union as a latter-day empire seeking to maintain its sway...
...that the Russians must use force in order to keep their grip on Eastern Europe. The Eastern European countries badly need outside aid in order to overhaul and modernize their industries. Since the Soviets cannot provide the aid without harming their own economic plans, the Eastern Europeans want to seek technical and financial assistance from the West. Fearing that economic ties with the West might loosen political allegiance, the Soviets oppose such links. One manifestation of the Soviets' attitude is their denunciation of the West's attempts to "build bridges" of tourism, culture and trade to Eastern Europe...
...party members. Recognizing that voters are no longer gripped by old revolutionary slogans and that today's prosperous workers are more interested in Mercedes-Benz than Marx, many Communists have changed their tactics. Accepting the rules of the political game in their countries, the reformers vow to seek power only by legal means. If they ever get into it, they promise, they will reform the society, not violently tear it down. They will, so they say, respect civil rights and freedom of the press while bringing about a more equitable distribution of wealth. Some Western European reformers even envisage allowing...
Specialists in these related sciences have begun to seek a common language to describe the many varieties of pain, to chart its pathways from the burned finger or the stubbed toe to the brain, to assess its total impact, and to find better ways of relieving it. Mind doctors and body doctors are at last recognizing that in their evolving concern with pain they are really talking about the same thing in different terms. Increasingly, they realize that even the most obviously real and physical pain, as from a burn or a fracture, is processed in the mind...