Word: ferreter
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...avert that catastrophe, the U.S. should use its influence with China and Thailand not just to cut off arms to the Khmer Rouge but also to shut down their base camps on the Thai side of the Kampuchean border, ferret out and seize their arms caches, round up their most villainous leaders and arrange for their peaceful retirement to, say, rural North Korea...
Sending the press back into the document stacks of the federal bureaucracy to ferret out misuse of funds or public trust would be a far better use of its investigative might than searches into the college date books of potential office seekers...
...Says a Government official: "The Hunts may appeal and fight for a while, but the total loss of their fortune is inevitable." Warns Herbert Deutsch, an attorney for the plaintiffs in one of the class actions: "My case alone will kill them. If they have assets anywhere, I will ferret them out and satisfy my clients' claims...
...attempt by modern scholars to ferret out the real, historical Nazarene from the supposedly embellished accounts in the Bible -- a process known as the historical-critical method, or "higher criticism" -- has resulted in some rather unorthodox notions. A current sampling...
...also has multiple amusing moments, usually when Tad Allagash is in tow. In one particularly funny scene, the pair release a vicious ferret in the office of Jamie's former boss while the fiction editor who has rejected his stories falls flat-on-his-face drunk before an armor ornament. And all of Jamie's forays into the Manhattan night are funny in their pathetic way, and this is precisely the sort of humor that...