Word: quested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never ending quest for perfection, Valpey ran his "A" and "B" teams through their entire repertoire of plays at the rate of slightly more than four plays a minute. Lest the men got out of practice, they carried out their blocking assignments against dummies bolstered by large linemen. Nobody seemed out of practice; on every play at least one dummy and lineman would go crashing down from a vicious block...
...throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself. "To be yourself, just yourself, is a great thing . . . You try neither to be one thing nor another, neither great nor small, neither clever nor maladroit . . ." Auguste's search for his true identity is a dangerous quest and it ends fatally, but not before he has discovered that "perhaps he was all right just as he was . . . The mistake he had made was to go beyond his proper bounds...
Clear-Cut Corner. It is an arena in which new gladiators arrive daily to risk ulcers, anxiety, tension, loneliness, bruised shins or the awful rebuff of failure in a quest for excitement, gold or glory. It is the Big Bonanza of the western world. Wrote an anonymous poet...
...Hollywood, which has spent millions in its quest for a simple, inexpensive color process, the invention of the Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...
...years in prison and fined them $7,000 and costs. Said the judge to the old brothers: "You have been engaged in a widescale, sordid, evil and vicious enterprise without the slightest regard or consideration for the patient that consulted you . . . You were cold, vicious and heartless in your quest for wealth...