Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represented, to its thousands of workers, one man, who commanded their fierce loyalty, love and admiration. I am glad Colonel Behn did not live to see his dream become a giant conglomerate, where the personal touch and human values are lost in the balance sheet, drowned in the quest for the almighty dollar...
...rest of the movie is a sado-masochistic version of an old-fashioned quest-not for a golden fleece or a Holy Grail, but for Lee's stolen share of the stolen loot. His techniques are sometimes interesting-as when he uses a white 1967 Chrysler convertible to subdue a bad-guy passenger by crashing, crunching and slamming the car into a junkyard heap. His invasion of the syndicate's impregnable penthouse (carpeted in wall-to-wall red fox fur) begins with a steamy sex wrestle and ends in a superbly vertiginous shot of a naked mobster arcing...
Known to the Negroes as "Ajax, the White Knight," Groppi found a valid local cause in the quest for an open-housing ordinance. Mrs. Vel Phillips, 43, a pretty Negro who is Milwaukee's only black alderman, has five times proposed that such a measure be debated by the 19-member common council; each time she was put down by a vote of 18 to 1. Groppi leaped into the issue like an avenging angel. As a result, says U.S. Representative Clem Zablocki, who speaks in Congress for most of Milwaukee's South Side, much of the city...
...quest for truth, TIME...
...novel about a swordfisherman. He knew the type. Dr. John Staige Davis, for example. A Manhattan internist, Dr. Davis, 66, has spent a considerable part of the past 37 years pursuing Xiphias gladius, the broadbill swordfish, from Montauk, N.Y., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., and from California to Peru. The quest has cost the good doctor something like 3,000 man-hours and many more thousands of dollars. And for what? In those 37 years, Dr. Davis has been privileged to see 100 swordfish. He has hooked eight...