Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question of the brutal treatment and forcible indoctrination of British prisoners taken in Korea. But perhaps their most interesting quest would be to seek out their own opposite numbers in China-the leaders of the "democratic parties," which are still allowed a tenuous existence owing to their propaganda value-and, without asking such foolish questions as how these parties viewed their chances of coming to power during this year...
Modern Minotaur. In Monsieur Folantin, Huysmans does much the same kind of thing for a cantankerous old bachelor with stomach trouble whose only quest in life is a good place to eat. Huysmans adds the pepper of cosmic malice and by the time he finishes tightening the belt of loneliness and despair around M. Folantin's spiritual midriff, ashes seem the principal diet of mankind...
...brave new quest for realism in movies, Hollywood got set to turn out just about the realest screen biography it has ever produced. Starring in The Bob Mathias Story, about the Olympic and world decathlon champion: 23-year-old Mathias himself, as the athletic genius who, in stolen moments off the track and field, woos and wins a girl, who will be played by his bride Melba...
...rate, Miss Shipley, I would like to help you in your quest for payment of my subscription, but I think that this too is a case of mistaken identity. The check which you refer to was not lost in transit, nor was it misplaced. It was received by you, and you cashed it, franked it, cleared it through the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on Feb. 15, returned it to the St. Anthony Park State Bank of St. Paul, which deducted the proper amount from my account and transmitted it to me canceled and perforated...
...child I had many dreams," René Cogny once recalled. "I was in love with the history of great French soldiers, and I read all I could about them." Cogny's own quest for glory was long frustrated by a run of bad luck. Born in April 1904, son of a civil servant in a Norman fishing village, he swept through high school and military academy with high grades (except for discipline); he graduated, class of 1929, from the Fontainebleau artillery school. Despite a long series of routine assignments, Cogny lost none of his enthusiasm. "I love troops...