Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning there had been the feeling that Harrison wasn't really the man to be Harvard basketball coach. Somehow, he always seemed out of place in the Cambridge arena. His volatile outbursts on and off the court, his relentless quest for ballplayers "who will run through walls for you," his often suspect offensive and defensive strategies, left most people uneasy. Not because his goals were incompatible with the Harvard atmosphere, but because Harrison never seemed quite the man capable of pulling them...
...SOMERSET MAUGHAM AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM by ROBERT LORIN CALDER 324 pages. Doubleday...
...string of improbable events which eventually present Malcolm McDowell's success -- his rise from coffee salesman to actor -- as a paradigm for humanity. Yet, despite the writers' attempts at universalizing McDowell, the main character remains an actor, and the status of successfully-luckyman which he achieves after his long quest is his salvation only...
Despite the sense of unreality that seems to pervade Phnom-Penh, the unresolved war in Cambodia has become the most crucial factor in the quest for peace in Indochina. If Cambodia falls to the Khmer insurgents, the Communists will gain easier access to South Viet Nam and thus be able to increase their pressure on the Saigon government...
This spring the quest for the $100,000 jackpot that will go to the championship team has caused more than the usual amount of erratic behavior. The Los Angeles Lakers, listless and barely able to survive their first-round clash with the bruising Chicago Bulls, came roaring back to polish off the Golden State Warriors in five games. The Knicks, helped by an injury that all but immobilized Celtic Star John Havlicek, ran up a commanding lead of three games to one, then lost two in a row. With that the Celtics did something they had never done before...