Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest of a pennant-clinching sweep, the Sox will probably send Reggie Cleveland to the mound tonight, followed by Luis Tiant tomorrow night, Dick Pole Saturday afternoon and Rick Wise on Sunday...
There are all these songs on the tapes about "nothing," as if, in those months, lying on the hospital bed, Dylan had pursued his quest for Johanna, and, not finding her, had meditated upon the results of his failed search--was he worse off or better off than before...
This book is about loss of innocence, then. Gifford's quest for the answer only convinces him of the fragility of the order he reveres; he sees that the lies of urban civilization will continue to make incursions into Lymington of a more destructive nature than the simple murder of Kimberly Ann Regan. Shopping malls, vinyl tombstones, and seaside development corporations are confounding the natural beauty of his town in more lasting ways than the incidental dumping of a bloody corpse on its sacred soil...
...David Burpee, 82, has finally discovered. All his life, Burpee has been devoted to the task of making a better marigold. As chief of the W. Atlee Burpee mail-order seed company from 1915 to 1970, Burpee found ways to invent new varieties large and small, but his main quest was for a pure white marigold, one that could be cross-pollinated with existing yellow, orange, and rust varieties to create a rainbow of new colors. In 1954, Burpee made a public offer of $10,000 for seeds that would produce a white blossom at least 2½ in. across...
Openly optimistic, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger jetted through the Middle East last week in quest of a new peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. In Jerusalem, Kissinger laughed off angry demonstrations as a minor and familiar inconvenience-"You forget that I come from Harvard and I'm used to them," he quipped-and spoke soothingly of the new rapport between Israel and the U.S. He met for five hours with Israeli leaders and then flew to Alexandria for talks with Egyptian leaders at President Anwar Sadat's summer residence overlooking the Mediterranean. Then Kissinger...