Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Drew, a political journalist who was one of the questioners at the first Ford-Carter debate, said yesterday she believes the current election process tempts presidential candidates, or "homocandidatus," to ignore issues in their quest for a positive public image...
...Count Dracula. The caped leech has been visiting more regularly than anyone realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...
...August, Francis Rosa of the Boston Globe blasted Harvard's year-long, aimless quest for an athletic director. Rosa questioned Derek Bok's attitude toward the athletic program at Harvard...
...face. If he can survive the tensions of the Socratic method in Contracts, if he can make it through the endless hours of case preparation, if he can surmount the embarrassment of blowing his presentation in the Ames Court contest, why then, Scott Turow can survive anything. "That driven quest for prominence which brings us here," he writes, "leads us, once we arrive to an almost inescapable temptation to scramble, despite obstacles and ugliness and bruises, for what sometimes looks to all of us to be the very top of the tallest heap...
...step out of his current life; his best friend at Oxford, long since estranged, is dying of cancer and wants to see him. Although the Oxford aesthete in Daniel notes with defensive irony that "all return is a form of bathos," he nonetheless packs his bags and his quest for self-purpose and goes home again...