Word: quests
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Over the course of four years, Harvard students responded to the Cold War as tensions flared inside and outside Harvard Yard. Senator Joseph McCarthy targets Harvard University in his quest to weed out alleged communists in America. The United States develops the hydrogen bomb, and the first color television is sold. For the Class of 1957, these events were the background to their time at Harvard...
...camp in the city, cooking on open fires and bedding down under bridges. In a report last November, the French aid organization Médecins du Monde said illnesses in Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many see Calais as an essential stop in their quest to reach Britain, unquestionably their preferred destination, thanks to the country's ample supply of illegal jobs, relatively liberal immigration laws, large ethnic communities and its use of English, which many of them already speak...
...What are your priorities? My priority is the economy. I'm keen to roll out policies that will ensure growth, so there will be job opportunities, and also look at infrastructure, particularly in the energy sector, which I see as a critical element in our quest for rapid development...
...Egyptian defenses in the Sinai Peninsula, moved against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and outflanked King Hussein's Bedouin army in the West Bank. In 132 hours, it was all over. Israel had more than tripled its territory, its forces moving into ancient Jerusalem, fulfilling the age-old quest of the Jews to return to their holy city. The war changed mental maps in the Middle East as much as it did the political landscape, altering hopes and fears. In 1967, Israel as a nation was not quite 20 years old, born in the shadow of the Holocaust...
...reconciliation. An old widower, institutionalized with dementia, is cared for by a woman who herself has lost her young son. (There were important deaths in every one of the winning films.) Determined to set the spirit of his dead wife free, the man sets out on a long quest through a forest, accompanied by the younger woman. It's a serious film that could touch anyone haunted by the loss of a loved one. But the movie hadn't the ultimate dramatic impact to earn one of Cannes' most esteemed prizes...