Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sleep and food are secondary to Bobby in his relentless quest, and he has paid a price for his dedication. His nerves are frayed, deep circles rim his eyes, his slight shoulders are stooped with fatigue. Jack
...like many elderly men, tended to romanticize his youthful trips. His quest for Lotto's altarpice in a rural, unmechanized Italy was undeniably pleasing. It seems even more so in contrast to his trips in modern Italy, when B.B. at times seems slightly dry, and ever so slightly disgusted and disillusioned...
...Great Quest. The machines are but a small example of the flood of new products that are transforming industry and the American way of life, and hold the promise of a new industrial era in the 1960s. No facet of living-or of manufacturing-has escaped the restless minds of inventors trying to devise newer, cheaper, faster or better ways of doing things. Some are as simple and gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when...
...ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with a so-yd. kayo range to make sure that he is ready for yeti...
Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...