Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy being here despite my lack of illusions. Illusions kill men; every day an illusion of omnipotence places new men-black, white, and yellow-in new graves. The quest for utopia leads to death. Spare me the illusions of my fellow...
Casper's chance discovery befits the mystique surrounding putting, the most delicate and distressingly difficult aspect of golf. In quest of an elusive "feel," professional golfers will try anything short of witchcraft to find the right putter. They experiment constantly, switching from wood shafts to glass, straight shafts to curved, aluminum heads to lead. In his heyday, Ben Hogan roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold...
...consciously was something of an achievement. The real point of Lawrence's novel is that he meant to go much further, but the movie-except for the interminable conversations which no one is going to listen to anyway-gives no indication of the dimensions of that quest...
While promising that "we shall withdraw more than 150,000 over the next year if we make progress on the negotiating front," Nixon said that he "must report with regret that no progress has taken place" in the quest for a negotiated settlement...
...more spaced-out age. So in 1952, he renamed his movement Scientology. It was a wise decision, because the "truths" of Scientology are even less accessible to objective scrutiny than were the techniques of Dianetics. Now Hubbard flatly declares that Dianetics is merely training, a preparation for the cosmic quest of Thetanship, and Scientology...