Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall has been the most consistently visible of Bok's appointees. In his quest for cutting Harvard's costs, he has produced almost always more efficient, but sometimes embarrassing schemes to save money...
...divine the whereabouts of lost objects. Sailors' wives wondered when -or if-their husbands would return. Many visitors wanted to know whether their enemies were bewitching them. Most frequently, Forman consulted his charts about affairs of the heart-his own as well as others'. During his long quest for a proper bride, the astrologer rejected all women who could not pass the ordeal by horoscope. The stars told him that one candidate "will ... bear outward in her behavior a fair show, but she will play the whore privily." He never called on her again...
After exams, the swordsmen will begin their quest for the Ivy League crown in earnest. Marion feels that Princeton, Penn and Harvard have an equal shot at the title. "One lucky break or one bad day will do it," prophesized Marion...
...other books are "The Quest for Permanence: the Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats" (1959), "Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity" (1964), and "English Romantic Writers...
Scotland's armed resistance to her union with England ended in 1746, when the kilted army of Bonnie Prince Charlie was crushed at the Battle of Culloden. But Scottish nationalist yearnings never quite died away, and in the past five years the ancient Gaelic quest for independence has become a political force to reckon with. Founded in 1934, the once minuscule Scottish Nationalist Party gained 31% of the vote and eleven seats in Parliament at the 1974 elections, largely on the basis of a platform calling for more autonomy for Scotland and, eventually, full independence...