Word: discoverer
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When Bush went into the oil business in Midland, Texas, he didn't discover enough of the stuff to strike it rich. He merged his first company, Arbusto (Spanish for "bush"), into one called Spectrum 7 in 1984 and then led the struggling firm into Harken's embrace in 1986...
Lewis and Clark were under no illusions about being the first to discover the Rockies. Everywhere they went they found traces of Indian tribes. We leave Saddle Camp shortly after dawn, while the snow is still firm, and walk 4 miles up to the Smoking Place, a peak with a...
A freak Memorial Day blizzard falls, nearly a foot of new snow. I hurry out into the forest, searching. After a few hours, I discover a set of fresh bear tracks. The bear is just ahead of me and is moving slowly, unconcerned, though the wind is not in my...
And so it should be, I resolved, after re-molding my custom-made sand lounge chair. My eyes, now covered with sunglasses, were still shut as they were directed towards the sun. My fingers started combing through the sand. My skin, and my friend’s, were both a...
When I Was a Young Man starts and finishes with chapters that detail Kerrey's discharge of a promise he made to his dying father?that he would discover how his father's brother died in World War II. This, he says, is the story he wanted to tell. But...