Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Russians, despite their equipment failures, performed well under difficult conditions, the real "heroes of labor" on the Aswan job were the Egyptian fellahin. Swarming to the site in quest of the relatively high pay (up to $1.20 a day including overtime), the Egyptians often slept under tarpaulins that flapped in the blast-furnace desert wind, ate their rice and drank their syrupy tea mixed with sand. When blasting shocks crumpled a temporary dam above the diversion channel last July, and the onrushing Nile threatened 5,000 workers in the incompleted turbine shafts, thousands of fellahin swarmed in with...
...Friends of Harvard Rowing announced yesterday that they will lend their support to sending the undefeated Crimson JV heavyweight crew to Henley on Thames in July in quest of the Grand Challenge...
...seemed hardly possible. Here was Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who only a few weeks ago appeared to be flat on his back in his quest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. He had been counted out because of the supposed political effects of John Kennedy's assassination and Lyndon Johnson's accession to the White House. He had been counted out as he campaigned about the country seeming to hate every minute of it and, entirely too often, shooting from the lip. He had been counted out as the polls showed his popularity dipping drastically...
...Jose nor its two newspapers were going anywhere in particular 15 years ago. The city seemed buffered from San Francisco by pastoral miles of Santa Clara County fruit trees, interspersed with canneries. Then the space age dawned in a thunder of rockets, and its artisans moved West in quest of Lebensraum...
...concluded, "but the times in which we live and the critical issues they have engendered. Our Constitution becomes meaningless if it is not a constitution as interpreted by the court. This is what is meant by justice under the law. The Supreme Court has always been dominated by the quest for justice when faced with problems that are more important and more difficult than those that any other court in the history of the world has been asked to face...