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Word: quested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report last year. This year's report avoids the vagueness of last year's, and applies that doctrine more specifically to world trouble spots and to other powers, particularly the Soviet Union. It combines a tough-minded analysis with a flexibility in approach that should aid the quest for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's World: Facing Up to Realities | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...second annual "State of the World" message, keyed to a "quest for global peace." Nixon pledged to continue U.S. troop withdrawal from Southeast Asia. However, he added that American troops will remain in South Vietnam as long as North Vietnam holds American prisoners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Sees More Bombing; Says Hanoi Widened War | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

Concluding his talk with an explanation and justification of the space program as a quest for knowledge, Aldrin said. "Nations must expand and look outward. We cannot be concerned only with our welfare problems. That is what nations have characteristically done in the past. That is when they crumble and fall apart, and we can't afford to do that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aldrin Speaks at Moon Symposium | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

Part victim, part protagonist, Didman drinks and fornicates his way through perversely comic and dreadful, nightmarish scenes, drifting toward a vision of his final destiny: he must become a self-willed pawn of the black-power movement. "Generals, politicians, princes_they killed in quest of power" he maunders to himself. "Why shouldn't an editor? Why shouldn't a middle-class family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberal's Crackup | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...Africa are negotiating as a group* -a precedent made possible when the Justice Department agreed to waive the antitrust laws for U.S. participants. The companies are confronting representatives of the main oil-producing nations: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Venezuela. In their quest for money the producing countries can bargain with muscle because they can always threaten to cut off shipments to Europe, which gets 85% of its oil from them, and to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for 91% of its supplies. They also have an intriguing if not altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Looking for a Fair Sheik | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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