Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, would she reconcile her quest for the kingdom of highest literary standards with a championship of women's rights that might promise a queendom of intellectual anarchy? Her lecture, it emerged, was no attempt to confront contemporary women's literature on shared, upto-date grounds of counter-culture, or politics, economics and sociology. She embarked instead on a delightfully meandering journey through literary history. Along the way, she did not visit the obscure artistic achievements of some long-forgotten authoresses, nor mouldering collections of poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar...
...with the Garibaldi resort's $5,000-a-month profit, the Brazilian government is lending Santini more than $2 million to build similar complexes near Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia. Making money, though, was not on Santini's mind when he began his quixotic quest to put Brazilians on skis. "My real ambition," he says, "is to see a Brazilian ski team in the Olympics-even if they finish last...
...save a par. Nicklaus had bogeyed the 16th, Jacklin bogeyed both of the final holes, and the Merry Mexican, crying, "I'm the greatest chipper in the world!", became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer (1961-62) to win two straight British Opens. Although Nicklaus lost his glorious quest, Bobby Jones would agree that, on the bonnie Muirfield moors, both he and Trevino struck resonant tunes of glory...
Regardless of method, the quest for permanent slimness is rarely rewarding. According to Dr. Alvan Feinstein of Yale medical school, the success rate of weight-loss programs is "terrible, much worse than in cancer." Out of every 100 obese patients, some doctors have found, only a dozen can be expected to lose significant amounts of weight in a yearlong treatment program. Of that happy dozen, ten can be expected to gain back their excess poundage during the following year...
...success, Land was convinced as early as 1963 that if Polaroid owners could get a small, easily portable, nonmessy instant-picture camera, they would buy huge numbers of them -and far more of Polaroid's high-profit film than they now do. Thus, Land undertook the greatest camera quest of his career: development of the SX-70. "The program to create our new camera was like a siren," he says. "She never came clean to say whether she meant to succeed or not, but she never let us escape...