Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaved down, psyched up Columbia squad put the Crimson's quest for its seventh straight EISL title in serious danger, toppling the Crimson for the first time with several outstanding personal performances...
Winning the national championship is a quest for the three friends, Rozier, Gill and Fryar. "We could have won three in a row," Fryar says...
...known base measure. With its incredibly precise atomic clocks, the Bureau of Standards can measure the second to better than one part in 10 trillion. The new standard, to be sure, makes no significant difference for workaday tasks. Still, there is something comforting in the fact that the scientific quest for accuracy is alive and well...
...bleachers and posters read "Caspar Weinberger Mass Murderer". For people trying to change American policy because they care about our democratic ideals, the flag and the constant chanting that made free speech an impossibility were hypocritical, especially at Harvard whose motto is "veritas" and whose goal is the quest for knowledge...
...Hedda has a good sense of time and tone, and her sudden still pauses are effective at first, but through too much of the play she seems merely to be walking from pose to pose; the intensity that could lead Hedda to destroy men's careers in her quest for "perfect moments" appears only in intermittent flashes. Raffi as Tesman and Linda Gray as Mrs. Elvsted--perhaps the feistiest of Hedda's intended victims--offer even less depth. Raffi in particular, though he seems to have a good grip on the well-meaning naive Tesman, over-emotes so consistently that...