Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface the quest for power centers on General Antonio de Spinola, 64, who is acting as President until the promulgation of a new constitution, and the young left-leaning officers of the A.F.M. which actually led the coup in April. In July, the colonels and majors seemed to gain the upper hand. After the fall of the new government's first provisional Cabinet, they pushed Colonel Vasco Gongalves, 53, up to the post of Premier-against an unwilling Spinola...
...your quest for a bathroom at Lamont Library, be informed by the young man (your peer) at Desk I that it is on the east side of the fourth floor; and he may add the gratuitous reminder (should you visibly wish that it were closer) that it was not until recently that Lamont had to worry about providing a bathroom for women...
...York Times of May 23, conceded that "there is no doubt that the majority of the people of Mozambique will choose independence." At that time the Spinola junta was smarting under the illusion that plebiscites could decide the issue of independence; but when African nationalists asserted that the quest for independence was irreversible, Portuguese pretensions were exposed. In Mozambique FRELIMO demonstrated its military prowess by launching the Tete offensive, which paralyzed several railway networks and enhanced its prestige...
...Congratulations to the editors and writers for the special section cover story, "In Quest of Leadership" [July...
...Heavenly City is not to be found on earth, Muggeridge turns his eyes toward heaven itself. Foreshadowing his conversion, he concludes that the quest for "an alternative reality" is the only thing that can redeem what he regards as "a lost life...