Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROPHECY. Power, the occultists and their critics agree, is at the core of the occult quest for self-realization. Time and again, converts from traditional religions relate how they resented being told what to do by their priests or ministers, how the occult gives them freedom to do what they want, seek what they want. In Christianity the Gospel message...
...political lessons were learned in Jack's campaigns, and later in his own quest for a Massachusetts Senate seat. Hersh savors the local pols who were momentarily crucial to Kennedy. Their quaint political world was to achieve national prominence during the Senator's unfortunate 1964 attempt to get Family Retainer Francis X. Morrissey confirmed as a federal judge. That whole public pratfall-the admission of double legal residences and nonexistent law courses-is played out here, but Hersh can offer no real explanation for it beyond misplaced family piety...
While the Administration has steered clear of the search committee's quest for a new director, both Bok and Hall have distinct opinions on what type of man is needed to head the Harvard Press...
...same time, the court judged that "in the long run, the quest for opinions would not be a useful investigative tool. If (Popkin) were forced to answer, scholar-sleuths would in the future think long and hard before admitting to an opinion, and grand juries would be without workable means for forcing them to do so." And it thereby struck down the lower court decision dealing with the remaining four questions that the government had decided to press...
...muster much enthusiasm or anger. Still, the war dead-especially those fallen in that most wretched of American conflicts-were remembered, if only in the privacy of the homes that lost them. Inevitably, they also must have been remembered by a President who was thousands of miles away in quest of elusive peace...