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Word: quest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUEST FOR FIRE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Sticks | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...invader repellent. So three of the Ulam prepare to cross what will become Western Europe in search of their elusive prerequisite. Upon their departure, exotic birds soar overhead in salute. The camera eye grows misty in reverence. Philippe Sarde's heavenly choir surges into oratorio orgasm. The quest for fire has begun. And all for the want of a Bic butane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Sticks | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...candidate insists he is in the race to stay, but his is a quest fast becoming futile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Neill Needs Cause, Supporters | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...delegate slots in Boston's word 5 caucus-and lost. Worst of all, as the week went on, and the official tallies from the state's roughly 600 ward caucuses trickled is, it became increasingly clear than son Tommy had failed miserably his first test in his quest for the Bay State's governorship...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Tommy's Crunch | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

After all this winding, the plot should tick toward the hour of denouement. Instead, The Villa Golitsyn keeps exploding. Its cloak-and-dagger trappings mask a quest that is much more serious and dangerous than the entrapment of a possible spy. Before his mission is completed, Milson is forced to test his own flexible, contemporary morals in a series of severe challenges. He becomes, however unwillingly, a student of Christian theology and then its potential victim. Near the end, he must save either himself or his conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat and Mouse | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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