Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richmond, who has already won the Greater Boston and Massachusetts state titles this year, did not lose a set in her quest for the trophy. Losing only six games in the first three rounds, Richmond handily ousted entrants from U.N.H., Clark University, and UConn...
...Hispanics' very numbers guarantee that they will play an increasingly important role in shaping the nation's politics and policies. Just as black power was a reality of the 1960s, so the quest for latino power may well become a political watchword of the decade ahead. Predicts Raul Yzaguirre, director of the National Council of La Raza (The Race), an umbrella group of Hispanic-American organizations: "The 1980s will be the decade of the Hispanics...
...Yorkers tacked on an insulting final run in the eighth inning and headed for the plane back to Los Angeles where they will resume their quest for a second consecutive world title tomorrow night...
...willingness to deal with the outside world. In recent months, Chinese rhetoric has been matched, to the surprise of many, by concrete actions. It seems that the China we once "lost" is now in search of us. Unfortunately, it also appears that we are assiduously avoiding their quest...
...absent-minded way the United States may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly bring the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...