Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After all, he was playing a deranged Elvis impersonator who loves his mama, tortures his girlfriend and dies of a nitrous oxide overdose. It was as if Martin were living out a line from the Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid trailer: "He'll do anything in the quest for the elusive Academy Award!" Still, nada...
Much of his early life was taken up in an endless quest for recognition. For years Jesse Jackson has been a man on a hunt for respect...
Looking at him, one has to wonder why Jackson is thinking of running at all. His presidential quest seems doomed, he has never been elected to any office, and most of his party wishes he would go away. Any Democratic nominee is sure to keep him at a safe distance, and will not want him as a running mate. Even Jackson's new success with white voters is probably transitory. Many of them have said they applaud his words, though they could never vote...
Those who fear that successful economic reforms would lead Moscow to renew its expansionist policies argue that, despite Gorbachev's rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often been to identify a danger, then crush it. As a largely landlocked nation with a history of being invaded, Russia developed an expansionist desire to control large territories. Over the years, there has been nothing as offensive as Russia on the defensive. Witness the postwar subjugation of Eastern Europe...
Perhaps the most relevant historical analogy is the thaw promoted by Nikita Khrushchev in the late 1950s, when he was pursuing his internal reforms. That was when the phrase "peaceful coexistence" gained currency. Both sides professed their realization that they had a stake in preventing war. The quest for nuclear parity began with the limited test-ban treaty negotiated under Khrushchev, which led to the era of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and detente under Brezhnev. But Khrushchev's thaw turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. He crushed the Hungarian rebellion, built the Berlin Wall, deployed Soviet missiles...