Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps as much to get rid of him as anything else, Congress authorized Paul Jones to sail Ranger to France and there seek a ship more to his liking. While searching, Jones in Ranger conducted raids on the English and Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...
Taking the Lead. Said the committee: "Our horizon is too often the narrow confines of the cold war. We must, while we defend ourselves, build toward the world we and other free men seek ... a world grounded in the inherent worth and dignity of the individual . . . Not only by reason of its power, but also because of its proven capacity to combine diverse elements into a stronger whole, the United States is best suited to take the lead in bringing about this mobilization and utilization of the free world's talents...
...Seek Ye First ..." At its best, the new African leadership has an impressive intellectuality. Kenya's whites are only too conscious of the ability of young Tom Mboya. It is at the second and third levels of leadership that the nationalist movements lack strength. One result is that even the most Western-minded of the African politicians feel that they are operating under crash conditions, and freedom in Africa does not necessarily promise democracy. One Nigerian said to me: "You in America get into a war, and you don't have much democracy either...
...white villas the colonial officials left behind, the continent is clearly slated for a series of strongman governments. No more pointed advice exists for the African politician than the pseudo-Biblical com mandment inscribed at the bottom of Kwame Nkrumah's statue, which stands outside the Ghana Parliament. "Seek ye first the political kingdom," it says, "and all other things shall be added unto...
TREASURY BORROWERS will seek $1.7 billion in new cash to complete financing for first quarter of fiscal 1960. Money will be raised through sales of Treasury and tax-anticipation bills because of improved market conditions...