Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew it could be a big success. Pretty girls against The Blue Knight and Quest. If it was up against Police Woman and M*A*S*H it would not be a runaway...
...heirs to his estimated $2 billion estate? Last week, seven months after Hughes died of kidney failure aboard a Texas-bound private airplane, none of those questions had been answered; Howard Hughes was generating as much mystery from the grave as he had in life. In the most bizarre quest for information yet, a neuropathologist will soon examine a portion of Hughes' brain that has been pickled and preserved in a jar on a shelf in Houston's Methodist Hospital. His mission: to look for evidence of disease or damage that could have impaired Hughes' judgment; such...
Even the colonization of the New World may owe as much to epidemic disease as to gunpowder and the quest for gold. The Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had already developed some immunity, but so devastated the Indians that even 50 years later the population of central Mexico was only one-tenth what it had been before Cortes landed...
...Coach Tom Sanders's quest for "team play," ball control is the essential element. Sophomore Bob Hooft and senior Marty Healy will try to lend their expertise in this area in their first years with the varsity...
Mondale pursued his assignment doggedly-and with more zest than he had shown in his own earlier aborted presidential quest. He improved on a previously humdrum speaking technique, lacing his talks with self-deprecating humor. In the end, newsmen voted his the happiest of the presidential and vice-presidential campaigns. Parodying an oft-repeated line from Mondale's speeches, "We want jobs -not hot air," reporters presented Mondale with a T shirt labeled WE WANT NEWS-NOT HOT AIR. He donned it at the end of an Election Day program that took him from tiny (pop. 2,000) Afton...