Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculate about what he would do if Egypt and Israel finally agreed to a declaration of principles and the other Arabs still refused to come in. "But it's hard to imagine that he would then shrug his shoulders and give up," continues Correspondent Wynn. "He regards the quest for peace as a sacred mission in the most literal sense?as a kind of special fate that he has accepted. The likelihood is that he would go ahead and make his settlement with Israel, leaving those blank spaces on the treaty for the others to sign if they ultimately come...
...Thursday you may think that the so-far-fruitless quest is getting overly long, but it is an instant compared to the New York run of The Fantasticks. You can see this play Thursday night, or Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday night, at Stage 2 in the Charles Playhouse. You may also want to see Much Ado About Nothing Wednesday or Friday at 8 p.m. at the Boston Shakespeare Company Theater, located at the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston...
...toll of another family vacation (the fighting in the back seat finally got to them). I have known, with a sense of doom approximating the feeling of a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, that I will not be embarking on a spree in the Netherlands Antilles, but on a hopeless quest to entertain myself in a deserted suburban wasteland...
Leakey, a small, spunky woman of 64, is the widow of the famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, who died in 1972. Some four decades ago, when she and Louis were beginning their quest for the origins of man, they worked for a time in a remote area of northern Tanzania called Laetolil?the site of her latest find. But after unearthing nothing more than a few distinctly non-manlike animal remains, they moved on to Olduvai Gorge, 25 miles to the north, where their fossil discoveries were to push back man's lineage by at least a million years...
...capitalism are losing their applicability. As the ineluctable economic law of increasing returns to scale mandates larger corporations and more monopolies in the name of efficiency, it seems increasingly unreasonable to allow so much power and responsibility to rest in the hands of relatively few men motivated by a quest for money...