Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard baseball team's quest for a trip to Omaha and the College World Series will have to take a different route this year because of a new NCAA ruling changing the way in which teams are selected for the World Series...
That assessment, by a longtime confidant of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's, seemed to describe the complex problem facing U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week as he stepped up the tempo of his shuttle diplomacy in quest of a second-stage disengagement agreement...
...environment. If the Supreme Court decides that the Federal Government is the proprietor of the offshore areas, then revenues derived from them should be shared with the coastal states to compensate them for unavoided adverse effects. This program, if accepted, would facilitate rather than delay the nation's quest...
...name on the mailbox-New Alchemy Institute-suggests that the small Cape Cod farm is dedicated to the ancient quest for a way of transforming base metals into gold. In fact, the farmers are pursuing an equally elusive but more modern goal: alternative methods of feeding the earth's billions without excess use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste of coal and oil, or reliance on the new hybrid grain crops, which despite their high yield are often vulnerable to disease...
...much of a dent in the world's enormous food needs. Nor do they all agree with the new alchemists' doomsday vision of the future of the Green Revolution. But, as the journal Science points out, there is no doubt that Todd and McLarney, in their idealistic quest, have shown that there may be a place alongside traditional agriculture "for the arks and other food-producing devices created in the new alchemists' crucibles...