Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bitburg ceremony. As the first West German Chancellor to spend his entire adult life in the postwar era, he has made a crusade of restoring West Germany to full international legitimacy. To have backed away from Bitburg, in his view, would have been to falter in that quest. The Chancellor was also acutely aware that a change in plans seemingly dictated by Washington would have opened him to a charge of weak leadership. One public- opinion poll taken at the height of the controversy showed 72% of West German adults surveyed thought the visit should go forward...
...England Telephone rather unfairly contributes to the spring fever epidemic. Practically every day since the first tulips shyly presented some tightly closed buds, I have felt myself being propelled to the phone in quest of a pronouncement on the day's weather. Actually, it has become kind of a ritual. The alarm goes off. I ecstatically leap--okay, so I blurrily stumble--from my bed and head straight for the phone. After doing my sun dance and propitiating the various rain deities, I slowly dial the prophetic seven numbers: 936-1111. This, of course, is not easy with...
...structure is contained within the story of Braithwaite's search for the stuffed parrot which served as the model for Loulou, the parrot of this housekeeper Felicite in Flaubert's tale "Us Center Simple" ("A. Simple Heart"). More than the trivial by-product of Braithwaite's loopy obsession, the quest for the real parrot becomes a tongue-in-beak metaphor for the essence of Flaubert...
...first ball overhand. "Like the big boys," she boasts. Along with Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Schott got to watch Reds Player- Manager Pete Rose drive in three runs on two hits, nailing down a 4-1 victory over the Montreal Expos and leaping out of the gate on his quest to catch Ty Cobb's 4,191-hit record. Rose, 44, now has fewer than 100 to go. Though he was hot, Cincinnati was downright wintry. The game was delayed twice because of snow. Since the season has been extended by two playoff games this year, the snow could...
...Coalition for a Free south Africa owes many of its headlines to Columbia's president, who has aided and abetted the demonstrators in their quest for attention. Sovern transformed what could have remained a campus controversy into an ongoing courtroom battle. Instead of keeping the protest and its resolution an in-house matter, Sovern sought a restraining order against the protesters from the New York State Supreme Court. The Court obliged, declaring that the protesters must clear the entrance to Hamilton Hall...