Word: quested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jaded professionalism of real vets. Every morning, we editors drag our aching bones out of bed, suck some nicotine into our already charred lungs, and swill down a brand of coffee best kept in government-approved drums with yellow and black warning labels on their sides. All in quest of the product that you, the comfortable reader, now hold in your freshly manicured hands. So you damn well better enjoy...
Waters has been frustrated in his quest by what he perceives to be the 49ers management's lack of cooperation in providing addresses and his own medical records. "They have been reluctant to help and unfeeling of the situation," he charges. He is particularly bitter because, he says, he received the addresses too late to get the questionnaires to Hazeltine and Lewis, who might have provided some valuable clues before they died. As his physical condition deteriorates -- he has dropped 20 lbs. and has lost the use of both arms -- his search becomes more urgent. "If we can trace back...
...Square this week, though, nothing seemed to matter but bargains. "We're going into every building," says high school junior Doreen Raphael, a Long Island resident visiting the Square on a quest for Harvard boxer shorts...
Triumphantly, Skipper Dennis Conner finishes his three-year quest and brings home the America's Cup, brimming with Aussie good cheer...
...domestic matters, the President in a written message pushed as a main theme the "quest for excellence." But in the speech he backed it up mainly by exhortation rather than specific proposals. For example, a plan to insure the elderly against the expense of catastrophic illness is supposed to be a cornerstone of his 1987 legislative program. Yet so far the President has been unwilling or unable to resolve a dispute within his Administration on what type of plan to propose...