Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Escape has always been a dominant American theme. Today, however, it often suggests not pioneering, the expansive drive, but a quest for refuge -from crime, pollution, drugs. Thousands of Americans have emigrated to places like Canada, England, Spain and Australia. They might have looked closer to home, according to Safe Places, a guidebook assembled by a New York book editor named David Franke and his wife Holly...
Having secured every team title in sight, Harvard's varsity racquetmen face Penn and Navy challenges in a quest for individual honors this weekend at the national intercollegiates at West Point...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power
Like Hemingway's Nick Adams, Irving began wandering in quest of experience-"to taste life," he said, "to search for the basic truths." First he went to Detroit to work in a machine shop and absorb the life of the working class. For a time he was a Fuller Brush man in Syracuse. Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world. On the dust jacket, the publisher offered an "unqualified guarantee of reader satisfaction" or the book could be exchanged...