Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony before a congressional subcommittee on science and technology last week, Air Force Lieut. General James A. Abrahamson, NASA'S associate administrator and boss of the shuttle program, said that discovery of the defect was a tribute to the space agency's quest for safety. He might have added that it was also because of an odd bit of luck. In late January, only days before Challenger's originally scheduled liftoff, NASA inspectors discovered that hydrogen was leaking from the No. 1 engine...
Presciently modern, Ibsen foresaw that collectivized man would make egocentric quests for identity and searches for self. Peer's quest for self-definition becomes a tale of tepid damnation. The suave, cynical Peer of Part II (played with acute perceptivity by Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned...
...people forced into an extraordinary journey. They reject the comfortable complacency contained in the words of the village preacher. "If the Day of Wrath, the Dies Irae is near, and it is always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black shirted Fascists (looking...
What turned a seemingly quixotic quest into conquest was a confluence of election-day mathematics, an uncommon surge of black bloc voting and the highest turnout ever in a Chicago primary. "He was creeping up on us very fast," conceded Byrne, "better than a point a day." Washington's fast-closing victory was based on a strategic assumption that by election day he could evenly split his opponents' white support, take 75% or better of the black vote and between 8% and 14% of the white vote. He did better than his blueprint. An Associated Press-WMAQ...
Walter Mondale, 55, the popular party warhorse who currently leads the pack, will make his announcement this week. Colorado Senator Gary Hart, 45, armed with a pile of position papers and an organizational expertise learned when he managed George McGovern's campaign twelve years ago, kicked off his quest last week. Senator Alan Cranston, 68, of California, seizing on the issue of a nuclear arms freeze, made his long-shot race official three weeks ago. Of the top four contenders, only Senator John Glenn, 61, has not formally announced his candidacy. He will not do so until mid-April...