Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kerry's opposition in his quest for Congress was Paul W. Cronin, a lowkey Republican businessman, whose major claim to fame came from his intimate political association with outgoing Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse. Morse's popularity was a well-known phenomenon in the District, and, while Cronin had himself served two terms as a state representative besides doing a stint on the Andover Board of Selectmen, he made no attempts to disguise his ties with Morse. Morse was Cronin's political meal ticket and Cronin felt no compunction over flaunting the fact. But despite Cronin's ties with...
...crowning blow against the Kerry quest came the Friday before election day, when Democrat-turned-Independent Roger P. Durkin with drew from the race and threw his support to Cronin. While not a major threat to win the election. Durkin commanded between 10 and 15 per cent of the popular support. Durkin had run a vigorous and conservative campaign that had directed most of its vituperative energy at Kerry. Durkin had stressed Kerry's "radicalism" and his ties with "yippie types" and had won the allegiance of the far right...
...Free. Studying up there with gulls named Sullivan and Chiang, Jonathan carries his quest for the joy of perfection to unimaginable flight skills and speeds. He finally learns to move from here to there instantly, just by thinking of it. He also learns that there is no heaven and no death. Existence is simply an infinite possibility of self-perfection through many different levels of consciousness. When he wonders why there are so few gulls at this level, he gets a heavy message from Sullivan. Unlike Jonathan, most gulls are interested only in eating, and so do not progress. "Learn...
...thing is certain, McGovern's own personal campaigning did little to help himself in his quest for the nation's highest office...
...Dreamwold is an appropriate place for a Studds party. For many of his supporters Studds' three-year-long quest for the Congressional seat now held by Hasting Keith, a quest which has spanned two elections, has been a kind of dream. Studds' basic constituency has all along been the young, the committed, and the idealistic, and they were in evidence in Scituate last night...