Word: questing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidently, this was a message that Carter tried to send from Annapolis to the Russians last week when he warned that "sharp disputes, or threats to peace will complicate the quest for an agreement." The Kremlin was being served notice by the Carter Administration that neither a SALT II agreement nor other cooperative adventures could survive a continuation of the sharp tensions that have arisen between the two superpowers...
...West Bank has now evolved into a semipermanent "liberation," as Begin calls it. Does this mean that the Jewish state-a nation born of discrimination and a longing for freedom -has become blind and insensitive to sufferings of others? Have the Israelis lost something of their humanity in a quest for security forced upon them by Arab hostility and four bloody wars...
...sweet to me," he exclaimed. "Now you'll go to bed with me. Look what a lovely bed it is ... I thought I was impotent. I have been for months. But you have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn't have continued using it." In fact, the chore was less onerous than she had feared. "I must hand it to the Rumanians," she confided...
...least one passage, Chavkin even distorts the truth in his quest for muck to rake, twisting the much-misrepresented ideas of sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, to give himself a target for an assault on determinism. Chavkin writes, "Wilson's contention is that it is the genes and not cultural evolution or socioeconomics or political environment that are responsible for human behavior." In fact, Wilson simply says that genes play a large, but not solo, role in shaping human behavior; he would hardly be happy with Chavkin's characterization of his ideas...
...quest for a cleaner, safer environment has forced companies to adhere to thousands of dizzying-and expensive-Government regulations. General Motors has figured out exactly just how high the cost is running for itself...