Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot on which Shaw hangs his message is fairly simple. The Patient, a whining invalid stifled by her mother's overweening care, allows herself to be kidnapped by her sexy new "nurse" and a smooth-talking preacher-turned-burglar, named, respectively, Sweetie and Popsy. The three set out in quest of "real life" and a good time, taking up residence near a British imperial outpost in some unidentified desert land. The Patient's mother eventually catches up with them but fails to recognize her daughter now disguised as a native servant girl and glowing with health...
Perhaps one of the deepest difficulties of Ford's pardon is a confusion of two roles: his obligations as a Christian and his responsibilities as a just President. On the personal level, the quest for Christian perfection obliges one human being to forgive another not only without regard to contrition but in spite of continuing hatred. Jesus' injunction in the Sermon on the Mount to "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you" carries no conditions. But an official charged with the administration of justice cannot casually apply personal obligations to a public...
...isle urge? It goes deeper than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
Restic was pleased, however, with the performance of his defensive unit, which is particularly encouraging since it is the graduation-depleted defense that holds the key to Harvard's quest for the Ivy title...
Under mounting pressure to act quickly in dealing with the nation's economic woes, President Ford last week intensified his quest for bipartisan support to curb raging inflation. He took the unusual step of holding an all-day, televised meeting at the White House with 28 noted economists. The group, which included six members of TIME'S Board of Economists, ranged from self-proclaimed "New Socialist" John Kenneth Galbraith to Hard-Line Conservative Milton Friedman. Whatever their ideology, what the President wanted was their "unvarnished" views on what to do about the sputtering economy...