Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans seem obsessed by the quest for status, and certainly the characters in Bonfire are, which suggests that...
...offense--led by Captain Mike Kelfer (21-20--41), David Tomlinson (13-27--40) and Sean McEachern (18-22--40)--can crack Roy and the Harvard defense early in the game, then the struggling Terriers will make Harvard's Beanpot quest a rough...
Much more probable is Co-Captain Mike Gielen's opportunity to make history tonight when Harvard faces Yale at Briggs Cage (7:30 p.m. tip-off). Gielen needs 12 more points to join the career 1000-point club for the Crimson. Roby's troops will continue their historical quest tomorrow night at Marvel Gymnasium in Providence, R.I. against cellar-dweller Brown...
...hour ride of Anders, Borman and Lovell marked the apogee of a decade-long effort. It involved 300,000 engineers, technicians and workers and 20,000 contractors, and it cost $33 billion. The quest also cost the lives of three fellow astronauts: Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, who had died on the launching pad the previous year. Some critics sneered at the outpouring of ingenuity and treasure. A "moondoggle," one detractor labeled the Apollo 8 flight. A Congressman termed it a "garish spectacle." It could be seen -- and was -- as history's most elaborate form of escapism...
...Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, emerges as the principal spokesman for the overarching theme of both the TV series and the book. That theme is that nuclear weapons are not really weapons at all; they are political instruments whose very existence deters their own use. Author Newhouse calls the quest for strategic advantage "the chimera of the nuclear...