Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the outcome in October, Carew's quest for the elusive .400 is a welcome and joyous event for baseball, helping to turn the sport away from its fractious present and back to its roots. After a generation of musical franchises, a decade of labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping...
Trainer Billy Turner prepared Seattle Slew for the Triple Crown quest with a cool deliberation that caused more second-guessing than usual along the backstretch. He purposely raced him little, harnessing his show of speed to guard against the fatal misstep that stalks the big, fragile-legged thoroughbreds. Slew's schedule was matched with equally undemanding workouts. Horsemen were quick to point out that he was slightly "short"-not in peak form-for the Kentucky Derby. After that race, Cruguet dawdled briefly up the track before riding into the winner's circle, because Slew was winded. Said...
...ARTIST'S QUEST seems to be after either matter or mode; at any given time he searches for what to say or how to say it. Like a child just learning to walk, each artist progresses one step at a time; if he lives long enough, he may have time to shift weight, as it were, and take a second step, so that he ends up standing in a totally new place. Styles and subjects are sought and articulated in what appears continual progression, and successive small steps by artists suddenly are recognized as giant leaps...
...almost fourfold in the past 15 years: from 54,000 in 1962 to nearly 200,000 today-although these figures are somewhat deceptive, since anyone who was worth $1 million in 1962 would need $1.92 million to be as well off today. As Economist Robert Heilbroner wrote in The Quest for Wealth, " 'Rich! I am rich!' is an exultant cry we shall hear down the ages...
...case, the crony and the counselor are rolled into one-or rather, two. With their infectious spirits, Jordan and Powell express a frolicsome side of the President that he tends to keep under very stern control. Yet they have also been an indispensable part of the presidential quest from the beginning (Jordan first worked for Carter in 1966, Powell in 1969). Now that their man has achieved his goal, they fill several vital functions-confidants, sounding boards and "no-men"-at annual salaries of $56,000 apiece...