Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in Tehran, the outwitted captors of the U.S. hostages and government officials were apoplectic. "This is illegal, it's illegal!" raged one of the militants guarding the U.S. embassy. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, just defeated in his quest for the presidency, vowed: "Sooner or later, somewhere in the world, Canada will pay." Whatever "hardness or harshness" now befalls the American hostages, he threatened, "it's only the Canadian government that will be responsible...
...their best, they are vivid with the drama of humanity in quest of pure excellence...
...does not venture much past the borders of the lyrical. The novel thus seems a little too modest for its own good. It concludes with a conventional clinch, boy and girl returning to a real world now much nicer than before, that undercuts the stern logic of initiation and quest. Like many would-be heroes challenged in first combat, Hugh is wounded; unlike them, he heals easily. Despite this tentativeness, The Beginning Place demonstrates what readers of Le Guin's highly praised science fiction have known for a long time: she is as good as any contemporary at creating...
...Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. As revered a figure among Russian Orthodox Christians as Sakharov is among his secular adherents, Dudko is an eloquent preacher whose sermons circulate widely from hand to hand. One day after Sakharov was flown to Gorky, two contributors to the underground magazine Poiski (Quest) were arrested in Moscow; a third dissident, in the town of Vladimir, was detained for questioning by police...
...what does former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner Jr.'s trial have to do with Thompson? It--and the attendant publicity--gave Thompson a big boost in his eventual quest to win the governorship in 1976. The trial took place in the midst of Thompson's tenure as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (which includes Cook County and Chicago), from 1971 through 1975. In that office, he attracted a great deal of attention for his reputed "swinging bachelor" life style--which Hartley says was a misconception--and his method of prosecution: going after the big names, leaking tantalizing...