Word: sought
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...human beings have sought to heal ourselves for as long as we have experienced disease and injury. For at least 3,000 years, the practitioners of medicine have codified these efforts, chronicling each new theory and practice--for the benefit not only of future healers but also of anyone eager to understand the limits of survival...
...present we are living in the Age of Popular Demand, because that--more than one man's malleability--is what has shaped national government. The country got the election it sought, befitting a people who are by conviction liberal, by impulse conservative. And it got the President it sought as well--a reflection of the attitudes of the majority and yet as removed from the people as they feel they are from...
Early in the morning of Nov. 5, 1995, exactly a year before Election Day, Bob Dole was jetting from South Dakota to accompany the man whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri: President Clinton told a gathering of Southern governors Tuesday that now that he signed the welfare bill they sought, it was the states' responsibility to move people from welfare to work. "You asked for this, and now you got it," Clinton said. "There is not enough money around to create enough public jobs to solve this welfare problem." The President said that means states need to use federal block grants to supplement wages paid by private employers, making it easier for companies to hire welfare recipients. "We need to break this responsibility down to think about...
...Roman Catholics consulted the Douay-Rheims translation, first issued in 1609 but revised during the 18th century to resemble or duplicate in most particulars the memorable cadences and phrasing of the King James. For some two centuries, readers of either of these Bibles could feel that the word they sought was the Word, that they had access to the linguistic unity enjoyed by humankind before the Tower of Babel, "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech...