Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transistor or the polio vaccine? Many scientists are certain he is. Harvard's George Kistiakowsky, who was one of Eisenhower's science advisers, calls the Nixon policy, especially the reduction in fellowships, "incredibly shortsighted." By stressing short-term, politically motivated payoffs over the broader quest for knowledge, he warns, Nixon is dangerously "using up our intellectual capital...
...match, repeatedly interrupted by the varsity's quest for workable equipment, was won by Harvard, if one could only find some way to overlook the 9-0 sweep of sabre competition by Columbia. Harvard has little depth in sabre, and if today's performance is any indication of things to come, next year could be bleak for the sabre team...
...Ibiza layabout a trifle more fascinating than the case warrants, and any reader who has put in time loafing in the European sun may suspect that he understands the inspiration for The Spanish Soldier. Buckholz himself lives on Ibiza, and his novel about Matthew's motiveless quest simply reflects an expatriate's guilty belief that he should face reality-which is to say, go back to the U.S. and get mugged in the subway...
...fuel-rationing plans that would go into effect "in critical periods of shortage." The President's own answer will come in his special "Energy Message" to Congress later this winter. None of the solutions are likely to blame environmentalism as a cause of the fuel shortage. What the quest for scapegoats has done is to show how extraordinarily complex the business of meeting the nation's energy needs really...
...presently engaged in soul-searching over their government's criminal actions, the Vietnamese are not troubled by such inner qualms. They may have second thoughts about aspects of military strategy, but they are not plagued by retrospective doubts about their initial decision to embark on an inevitably violent quest...