Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merely improbable in a time when even a legitimate challenger like Ken Norton, who is a movie star to boot, does badly on closed-circuit TV, it is preposterous. One really cannot deal with such a howler and at the same time interest oneself fully in Rocky's quest for a moral victory (staying on his feet a full 15 rounds with the champion). It is too bad. Rocky was shot very inexpensively, giving hope to all who be lieve that it is possible to make an appealing and potentially highly popular film without spending millions - or even...
Hume has consistently carried his quest for a non-violent solution to the Ulster conflict from the negotiating table to the city streets of Derry and Belfast. While a Stormont parliament member, Hume often risked his own life quieting Catholic protestors, keeping exchanges of insults from escalating into violence. Today, of course, all Protestant and Catholic marches are open invitations to violence and have been banned by the London government...
...more discreet abroad, unsure what the new limits are on their quest for profit. United Fruit's decline opens new options for Central American nationalists. Expropriation is no longer heresy, regulation is almost taken for granted, and even some control seems feasible...
During his tumultuous six years in office, Echeverria gained international fame-some might call it notoriety-as a spokesman for the Third World's quest for a new international economic order. At home, he combined tough anti-business rhetoric (he referred to wealthy entrepreneurs, for example, as "plutocrats and pro-fascists") with an ambitious, deficit-financed investment program in highways, electric projects and oil and steel production. Last year public investment exceeded private investment for the first time in Mexico's history. Rising food costs boosted wages and inflation at home, while world recession cut export markets. Caught...
Desperate Hedonism. Is J.J. Wolfe really the murderer? Through most of the book, neither Bone nor the reader can be quite sure, though circumstantial evidence certainly points that way. In any case. Bone cannot stop Cutter's quest for "justice." True to form, he tags along through a series of manic misadventures involving more sex and booze than sleuthing. Tension mounts. Can respectable Wolfe be responsible for the fire that guts Cutter's house and kills his girl and their baby son? Finally the odd pair journey to Wolfe's home in Missouri-and doom...