Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returned to Harvard, an unannounced but obvious Presidential candidate, ready to claim his bright young idealists and embark upon another "impossible quest." But when he ran his new candidacy up the flagpole, nobody saluted...
...quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Henry Jackson has rated up to an unimpressive 8% in the national polls. Indeed, there is some fear in his camp that Scoop could poop out long before next summer's nominating convention unless he rapidly becomes better known among voters and matches strides with the front runners in the initial presidential primaries. So Jackson has decided to enter the fray officially next week, and with a big bang...
...began, some said, more as a campaign for the vice-presidency than as a quest for the highest office in the land. When it ended last week beneath the crystal chandeliers of the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the most that could be said for the brief, improbable presidential odyssey of Birch Bayh was that it had come close to being second best. As one of the Indiana Senator's aides put it: "In some of the polls, we were everybody's second choice...
...Connally has only one big prize left to crave: the U.S. presidency. Many of his intimates believe that his quest for that position is what led him back into Government. He realized that the chances of a liberal Democratic Party choosing as its candidate another Texan?especially one who is more conservative than Johnson?are dim indeed. For the moment, all he can do is play out the hand that Nixon has dealt him and wait to see what happens. Connally has told friends that he and Nixon have never discussed the possibility of his taking the No. 2 spot...
...Crimson will put it's 872 game winning streak on the line Saturday morning against the presently undefeated Columbia Daily Spectator. The Crimson began its quest for a ninety-eight undefeated season by edging Bok's Jocks, 23-2. The Spectator opened its schedule with a simple 29-7 victory over the Columbia varsity Wednesday...