Word: quested
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Adolf Hitler initially led his party in a reckless, illegal quest for power, culminating in the abortive Munich putsch in 1923. This failure brought about an important change in the Nazi strategy: henceforward they would seek power through the established, legal channels. Legalism does not rule out violence, as the SA's activities demonstrated (and the United States government continues to demonstrate), but further putsches were ruled out. During the next decade, the Nazis exploited the freedoms granted them and their tactics were rewarded with Hitler's constitutionally legal accession to the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933. History doesn...
...were hard to break in and hot to wear. The company was never able to reduce production costs enough to make the material profitable for use in luggage and other leather goods. While production of Corfam is being phased out over the next year, Du Pont will continue the quest for another miracle product...
Despite the withdrawal from the naive optimism of the mid-sixties, that optimism was important. The quest for a more fulfilling existence is as necessary as it is hopeless...
There are some people who will not drop acid. Because it is too much. Too much of a trip. Of those who will drop it, there are some who are hungry for it . . . these people are on a quest. If you are one of these people you know this about yourself. . . . When you come to acid, you come with the heat of a man given a single last chance. . . . You are without spirituality. So you smother your senses in the garbage of color, light and sound. Here, among the infant molecules of thought, you are subjected to the cool heat...
...suburbs from 1960 to 1969, while the major urban centers saw a rise of 117%. "We are urbanizing the suburban areas to the point that many of them are coming to resemble the cities of a few generations ago," says Milton Rakove, a University of Illinois urbanologist. The quest for a home of one's own is increasingly frustrated. As demand goes up, supply diminishes, and prices have risen steadily. Now, by some estimates, half of all new suburban housing around...