Word: quested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace was a clamor, a quest, a foreboding struggle. But politicians and publicists accounted for nearly all the news. Seldom had the people been quieter than in the months before V-E day, 1946. Even where "popular" demonstrations occurred (in Detroit, or Trieste, or Cairo) they had a manipulated look as of soldiers marshaled for parade. While their leaders made history, what went on among the people for whom (and ultimately by whom) history is made? Their leaders were concerned (perhaps necessarily) with remote and technical matters-U.N. procedures, boundaries, interest rates on international loans; from what was said...
Those who had begun to fear that no workable plan could be found for international control of the atom had still to be shown that this was really such a plan. But the report raised hopes that the 20th Century's most impelling quest was not necessarily doomed to failure...
...maneuvers in 1894 as a German Army conscript, Schweitzer carried a Greek Testament in his pack, and germinated the "eschatological interpretation of Jesus" (later published as The Quest of the Historical Jesus) that won him his first theological notice. Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon...
...Quest for Food. The colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...
...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...