Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish Quarter of the Old City, for example, is being meticulously reconstructed, and 2,200 Israelis have settled there; prior to 1947, the Jewish population was only 1,300. A number of Arab families who lived near the Wailing Wall have been displaced, while others have moved away in quest of better housing; as a result, the Arab population of the Old City has dropped from...
Exaggerated and contradictory headlines have chronicled progress in this research in Cambridge and California over the past year. Some observers, however, have felt the the scientists quest for insulin-production is more of a race. Researchers, they point out, are not ignorant of the potential prize of being first--lucrative contracts with drug companies and a likely Nobel Prize...
Without question the most-publicized, most expensive and closest of all the county races, the quest for the Democratic nomination for Middlesex County D.A. featured an entrenched 19-year incumbent and an experienced public sector attorney as its main combatants...
...quest for the right picture becomes especially challenging when no one is certain that the desired photo even exists. A case in point: locating a shot of John Paul II enjoying the sport of skiing before he was elected Pope. Reports Assistant Picture Editor Alice Rose George, who led the scramble: "Our researcher in the London bureau was told by a photographer that he knew someone who had taken a skiing holiday in Poland and had some 8-mm movie film of Cardinal Wojtyla in ski clothing. We tracked down the film and ended up with an exclusive shot...
Jerome Charyn exerts energies that could make a turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...