Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's five largest mines. (The government announced last week that it would also buy out the Chil ean operations of the Bank of America and the Bank of London.) Though copper nationalization was clearly a victory for Allende, one he has sought ever since he began his quest for the presidency 19 years ago, he was not altogether happy with the law as passed. The President had wanted indemnification to be paid over 30 years at 3% uncompounded interest. But Congress, narrowly controlled by the opposition, called for "no more" than 30 annual installments and "no less" than...
...wadded into a knapsack and a few hundred dollars stuffed into their jeans. Many of the girls are unsupported by anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they share much the same style of dress...
...quest for adventure has led quite a few young wanderers out of Europe and into Asia. Incredibly cheap student charter flights leave almost daily from major cities. Typical fares: London to Bangkok for $185 one way ($528 regular economy fare) and Rome to Istanbul for $46 ($116 economy fare...
...fitting finale for Britain's ten-year quest for membership in the thriving European Economic Community. Dawn had already broken and sleeping reporters were sprawled around the press quarters when the Foreign Ministers of the Six invited British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon to their conference room to hear his formal acceptance of their conditions for British entry. As Rippon stepped into the room on the second story of Luxembourg's modernistic Kirchberg European Center, the rumpled, bleary-eyed ministers spontaneously broke into applause. The gesture was as much an indication of relief as of welcome to Britain, whose...
Whatever his motive, the tardy person always runs the risks of mistiming and misjudgment; it takes an expert in unpunctuality to know how late is too late. The novice may find that his grand entrance coincides with a general exit, or that his quest for invisibility puts him instead into a pitiless spotlight of glares...