Word: quests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign began with bumps for Correspondent John Austin. Covering the early phase of Richard Nixon's nomination quest, Austin was struck in the head by a 5-lb. package of confetti at a Chicago rally. Then, as he tried to keep up with a Nixon motorcade in San Francisco, he was hit by a police motorcycle. He took his wife to one political event, at Madison Square Garden. She made it through the police line easily without official credentials; he was detained, though he wore the laminated press card issued to newsmen only after they passed a federal security...
Though patterns were her favorite preoccupation, people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles...
...lion's share of nearly $1,000,000 in grants to Chicago-area colleges. A good many people seem to agree with the view of Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. "The genius of Dr. Hurst," says Jackson, "is his ability to turn the urge for rebellion into a quest for knowledge...
...Soyuz 11, they are launching payloads of all kinds at almost three times the U.S. rate. It almost seems, says Norman Mailer, who chronicled the first lunar landing in his book Of a Fire on the Moon, as if Americans no longer find any poetry in the quest to reach the stars...
...August is normally a big harvest month, but untold acres went unplanted in April, when the fighting was at its height. Already, peasants along the rainswept roads show the gaunt faces, vacant stares, pencil limbs and distended stomachs of malnutrition. Millions of Bengalis have begun roaming the countryside in quest of food. In some hard-hit locales, people have been seen eating roots and dogs. The threat of starvation will drive many more into India. Unless a relief program of heroic proportions is quickly launched, countless millions may die in the next few months. Yahya's regime is not about...