Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other on the battlefields of Europe now became good neighbors. Of course, this demanded a new kind of patriotism. Older settlers, who imagined that newcomers could become more "American" by becoming more like themselves, were all wrong. America was always being redefined by the arriving millions, by the common quest for a new kind of nation...
Frustrated by "victory" in two world wars (and troubled by doubts about the war in Viet Nam), surfeited by an American standard of living, many Americans, then, were tempted to become refugees from the American quest. Some felt that the decent, prosperous life the earlier Americans wanted for their grandchildren had not been achieved by them. But belligerent campaigns for ethnic and racial pride fragmented the nation with new chauvinisms. The fertile pleasures of an immigrant nation were displaced by cold-blooded quotas - unashamed power struggles of Americans against themselves. The struggle for minority rights became a demand for minority...
Halstead's assignment was to try to "portray the real girls journalistically, not stylistically." In his quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...
...that their individual relationship with the College is fairly typical as far as city-to-Harvar links go. Many feel that the Philadelphia alumni represent a fairly accurate sample in terms of the workings of alumni groups throughout the nation. Some even feel they are not alone in the quest for further club de-socialization and greater interest in the admissions and scholarships for local boys. They know they are united in opposing any increase in the number of women at the expense of a decrease in the number of men, and in the desire to increase the number taken...
...effort to be the mortal who moves mountains can only lead to continued strife. By now, twenty-seven years after the first Arab-Israeli war, the warring parties should not, and cannot afford to, depend on the good offices of one man in their mutual quest for peace...