Word: quested
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Barack Obama heads into the final 48 hours of his 21-month quest for the White House, everything about his operation exudes optimism and energy and momentum - demonstrated most dramatically at a downtown rally in Cleveland on Sunday evening, where an estimated 80,000 people sang along with Bruce Springsteen to "This Land Is Your Land." But with the finish line in sight, earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours...
...During his 2006 campaign, Irving said he tried to knock on every door in Cambridge. Though he fell short of that mark, he called his quest “the most fascinating experience...
...men’s hockey team was forced to watch the NCAA tournament from Cambridge at the end of last season. The Crimson came agonizingly close to an NCAA bid—the team’s loss to Princeton in the finals of the ECAC tournament ended its quest to travel to nationals. Harvard’s close call came after a miraculous winning streak during the months of February and March, that helped the team recover from a 10-game winless streak during December and January. But now, that experience is in the past, and a new quest...
...food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey through Galicia—a rain-battered, idiosyncratic area in Northern Spain. His challenge is to “eat every part of the pig, in as many places as possible,” but with a Dionysian disregard for order...
...agencies and other critics call Nkunda a power-obsessed warlord whose troops have raped and terrorized civilians in a quest to control a part of Congo with rich farmland and valuable mineral deposits. Nkunda, of course, sees things differently. He professes to be a protector and liberator of ethnic Tutsis like himself, still hunted by Rwandan Hutus who crossed the border into Congo after the genocide of the mid-1990s...