Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily favored Harvard varsity squash team opens its quest for its 11th national championship in 12 years as the Crimson clashes with traditional weakling MIT at 7 p.m. tonight...
...third-ranked, once-beaten Harvard soccer team, its regular season over, begins its fourth annual post-season quest for a berth in the NCAA playoffs in Miami this afternoon at 1 p.m. when it hosts Ivy rival Brown in the New England regional finals. The winner will battle Cornell for a spot in the Christmas tournament in the Orange Bowl...
...last day of his quest, George McGovern hurtled across the country in a fishhook pattern: New York City, Philadelphia, Wichita, Kans., Long Beach, Calif., and then eastward again to Sioux Falls, S. Dak. He covered 4,399 miles in that final exhausting spasm, as if to demonstrate his fealty to the crusade through its crushing climax. He still posed the question in terms of morality and righteousness; Richard Nixon was guilty of the "big lie" in general and of "deliberate conniving deception" concerning the Viet Nam negotiations. At one point he talked about how Lincoln put his faith...
America would not come home to McGovern's vision. Even McGovern's extraordinary faith in himself could not survive the unanimous resonances of reality. Tuesday night brought an end to the longest declared quest for the presidency in modern times. In January 1971, still an obscure figure in national politics, McGovern said: "I seek the presidency because...! believe the people of this country are tired of the old rhetoric, the unmet promise, the image makers, the practitioners of the expedient." Yet McGovern was to stumble into those same pitfalls?and more...
...performed now in the Larry Carsman Band--fans of James will recall the favorite "Some Kind of Wonderful" sung by Larry as well as such classics as "I Feel Good" and "Massin' with the Kid" This is the tradition which the Montgonters band began to leave in the quest for wider audiences and reputation...