Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation's quest for peace. Our sale of grain and other foodstuffs to the rest of the world is one of the brightest areas in our economy, a green harvest we all understand." Without these sales, he maintained, the U.S. would lose $12 billion in earnings from international trade...
...comparisons. As a relatively obscure Representative from Arizona, he knows that his chief asset is going to be the impression he makes. With considerable candor, a skill at raillery and a gift for not taking himself too seriously, he makes friends fast-if not ardent converts to his presidential quest...
...album explores the emotional changes that accompany the quest for success, romance and security, and the disillusionment that may follow attainment of the goal. "It can be a woman, fame or peace of mind," explains Henley. "What is important is how you feel about the prize when...
...There are, however, many compelling, if superficial resemblances. In their own way both events can be seen as attempts to legitimize postwar balances of force in Europe-the one in the wake of the devastating Napoleonic Wars, the other a long-delayed sequel to the equally disastrous imperial quest of Adolf Hitler...
...almost every issue, Playboy magazine has run a full-page house ad asking the slightly rhetorical question: "What Sort of Man Reads Playboy!" The answer assures advertisers that the Playboy reader, in his quest for the good life, spares no expense. In a way, the same has been true of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the haphazard corporate empire spawned by the magazine that Hugh M. Hefner founded with several hundred borrowed dollars in 1953. Over the years, PEI has spent millions to give substance to Hefner's sensate fantasies; today Playboy Enterprises include hotels, clubs, movie, record and book publishing...