Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show's female impersonators, who have always kept ahead of the torso problem, acknowledged defeat last week in the tonsil division. Baffled in their quest for someone to deliver a blood-curdling scream from the wings in the Act One Frankenstein scene, Pudding casters had vainly tried out every boy in the Club...
...silver-bearded wizard outlines Frodo's task and quest. He must "find the Cracks of Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there ... to put it beyond the grasp of the Enemy for ever...
PRINCETON, N.J., 5-The Crimson jayvee football team meets Princeton here tomorrow at 11 a.m. in quest of its fourth straight victory...
...liberal education is to turn relatively undifferentiated boys and girls into mature, intelligent, thinking, passionate, and compassionate persons: into men and women with convictions and the courage of their convictions, and possessed with the central conviction that until their dying day they must continue on an endless, fretful, feverish quest after thoughts, and more thoughts, and still more thoughts...
...Entering the Zoo. Riesman seems to be leading thousands of Americans on his quest. His central book, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character*, was published four years ago and has already a kind of classic status. Not that it is "accepted"; it draws academic argument and even sneers. But it has become a part of the social-science landscape. A paperback abridged edition issued a year ago has sold 40,000 copies, an enormous sale for a work of this sort, which contains no soothing soul-poultice, no sensationalism, and makes no effort to write down...