Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nominees, will establish the early form for the 1972 nominating competition. No one doubts that, as a freshman Senator, Humphrey will be an available-but hardly compelling-contender. Muskie is easily the current favorite. Last week he flew to Illinois, back to Washington, and out again to California in quest of money and votes for fellow Democrats and exposure for himself. He still suffers from an aura of passivity. A taunt from Eugene McCarthy last week summed it up: "If Muskie had been Paul Revere, he'd have shouted during the warning ride, 'The British have been here...
...Philanthropist, produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theater, opens literally with a bang. A young playwright blows his brains out in the lodgings of a philologist. Then it settles down into a satirical, searching account of the philologist's quest for some spiritual anagram for happiness. Such ups and downs occur throughout the play. The ups are sufficiently impressive that it is hard to believe that the author, Christopher Hampton, is only 24. Yet it remains for a leading actor, Alec McCowen, to lift the production as a whole onto a plane of compelling theater...
Until recently, Italians accepted this "dictatorship of the bureaucracy" with sad fatalism. Lately, however, unhappiness has changed to anger. Since last autumn, all sorts of groups-firemen and farmers, nurses and teachers-have gone on strike, as much in rage against the government as in quest of higher pay. Now, after 20 years of study and a year of parliamentary debate, Rome is finally responding. This week, in what may eventually be regarded as the most significant Italian election in two decades, 30 million Italian voters are choosing regional councils that will transfer considerable power from the capital...
...ascertain the location of various warships at specific times. "I questioned admirals and captains, who sent me to other admirals and captains," he wrote. "Finally, in the office of an elderly admiral wearing ribbons I had never seen before, I was certain I had reached the end of my quest. I put my questions. He thought for a moment, then said, 'Lieutenant, when I want information of that kind, I usually check with TIME.' " A flattering story, even if the admiral was in a mood to exaggerate. Yet while the magazine has certainly never claimed to know everything...
...week thousands more arrive, aboard the "Train of Hope" from Italy's blighted south, aboard jampacked boats out of Dakar and other West African ports, aboard buses from Spain and Portugal, and even on foot, carrying their belongings in a kerchief or a cardboard suitcase. One day, their quest for affluence in the cold and often inhospitable north may be looked upon as one of the great social movements of the 1960s and '70s. Already, they have given Europe a "northward tilt" comparable to the westward tilt that the U.S. has experienced since World War II. But unlike...