Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Despite the impression that the Communists run their war from some sort of E-Ring in the jungles, COSVN is actually a staff of some 2,400 people who are widely dispersed and highly mobile−too mobile to please a U.S. brigade that has been toiling in fruitless quest of COSVN for three weeks. Says a weary intelligence analyst: "We're still looking for the guy in the COSVNT shirt...
...first fight in the U.S. As always, he carried with him cherished mementos of his father: the taped water bottle he always used in the ring, the watch he was wearing when he died, the bloodstained trunks he wore when he dethroned Zale. Whenever anyone mentioned his quest for the championship, petit Marcel spoke the few words of English he had mastered: "It is my destinée" Shortly before the fight, he listened to a recording of a soul-searing ballad by "Aunt Zizi" (Piaf), not because he is superstitious, he said, but because "it is a personal force...
Many members of SDS. RYM. and NAC are well-intentioned, but I am forced to condemn their quest for an unrealistic goal when unquestionably brilliant tactics are applied so as to result in both polarizing the power structure to take a hard line on the war and, worst of all, in precipitating a wave of repression which does not affect them but is instead applied to those for whom they would have us believe they fight, i.e.. Black people, Shannon Hall may come to mean that those of us who have been forced into politics because of our concern...
...happy being here despite my lack of illusions. Illusions kill men; every day an illusion of omnipotence places new men-black, white, and yellow-in new graves. The quest for utopia leads to death. Spare me the illusions of my fellow...
Casper's chance discovery befits the mystique surrounding putting, the most delicate and distressingly difficult aspect of golf. In quest of an elusive "feel," professional golfers will try anything short of witchcraft to find the right putter. They experiment constantly, switching from wood shafts to glass, straight shafts to curved, aluminum heads to lead. In his heyday, Ben Hogan roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold...