Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Zanker, 42, is one of those quirky entrepreneurs always on the lookout for the Next Great Idea. Jogging through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park one day, he spotted a man offering massages for $1 a minute. "He was dirty, he looked homeless, and yet people were lined up," recalls Zanker. "I thought, 'What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store...
...turns out, Capt'n Neato-Man ("All the good superhero names were taken") put the ad in the paper to find his sidekick, Horatio. "We put it in the secretarial section to throw off the commies," he confides. His mother is on the lookout for something else altogether, but Larry resists both of them; he's looking for a real job, having been fired from McDonald's ("The epitome of the American Dream!" breathe the Captain and his mother), and he's waiting for his true love to come along...
...part of a backup force in case local police or the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team need help. Most of the 500 commandos are on alert at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but a small contingent, armed with hidden weapons, have been patrolling Olympic sites in civilian garb, on the lookout for anything suspicious. In addition, the Army has bomb-dismantling experts and specialists trained to deal with chemical or biological weapons at the ready in Atlanta, along with more than a dozen scientists from the Nuclear Emergency Search Team to deal with atomic terror. Metal-detection equipment...
...world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services...[Later] newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout had been posted to trace the bills, plainest warning to the criminals of Col. Lindbergh's countermove...
...thought how pretty it was. They passed occasional signs advertising campgrounds and raft trips down the White River. With the mild winters and scenery, McDougal was convinced that real estate in the area would be attractive to growing numbers of retirees. Jim and Susan McDougal were always on the lookout for real estate deals...