Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHAT THE two Presidents share most is their hubris in presuming to dictate the internal workings of another nation. Wilson said upon taking office that his administration "would have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition." He believed that, "when properly directed, there is no people not fitted for self-government," and took it upon himself to "teach the South Americans to elect good...
...suspected that the operation diminished the Soviets' prestige, both by revealing the inferiority of the weapons they had supplied to Libya and by exposing their reluctance to do anything other than light up their ship and head for safety when fighting broke out. But General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev did seek to score some propaganda points. In a speech on Wednesday, the Soviet leader denounced the "imperial, bandit face" of U.S. policy, and then offered to withdraw Soviet naval forces from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests...
...same press conference, O'Neil declared his candidacy for Suffolk County Sherriff just three days after incumbent Dennis Kearney announced that he would not seek re-election...
Galvin, who withdrew from the Eighth Congressional contest to seek re-election, lashed out bitterly at O'Neil in his departing announcement, calling him "a disgrace to the race," whose flamboyant presence hampered the serious discussion of issues...
...excuse seeks to extenuate, sometimes to remove the blame entirely from something which would otherwise be at fault. It can seek to extenuate in three ways. First, it can seek to suggest that what is seen as a fault is not really one. Second, it can suggest that, though there has been a fault, the agent is not really blameworthy, because he is not responsible. And finally, it can suggest that, though there has been a fault, and though the agent is responsible, he is not really to blame because he has good reasons to do as he did." (Sissela...