Word: scour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhere in Georgia this summer, Newsweek reported, a group of swimmers shore. Someone yelled, "Sharkl" and scores of people ran back to land to scour the sands for weapons. Armed with driftwood clubs and beach umbrellas, the bathers re spotted the creature, surrounded it and beat it to death. When the thing drifted motionless and the people could get a better look, they saw it wasn't a shark after all. It was only a baby whale...
Since November, Argentina has been under an official "state of siege."In February, the army ended its two-year hibernation in barracks by deploying some 3,500 soldiers to scour the northwestern jungles of Tucumán province for leftist guerrillas. The government's muscle flexing has not been limited to terrorists. Five moderately left-wing provincial governors have been removed from office by executive decree. The universities have been purged of thousands of dissident professors. Steelworkers at Villa Constitución, the industrial center north of Buenos Aires, have been on strike for four weeks to protest...
...customers and for fear of rocket attacks in parts of the city. The city's hospitals are over-crowded with civilians suffering from shelling, disease, and starvation. As of this week, there are not even any ambulances available to transport wounded and dying civilians to the hospitals. Children scour the city's streets and dumps looking for enough food to stay alive; merchants are selling off what remains of their inventories. A fear has taken hold in Phnom Penh which would have turned to panic long ago were it not for the American airlift...
WINDING UP Park Drive, the march crosses the Fens and heads into downtown Boston via Boylston Street. The leafleteers scour the sidewalks and pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
...Judiciary Committee all of the evidence that it gave Jaworski does not lessen the significance of the decision that Sirica faces. The grand jury evidence presumably applies directly to the President's role. Its acquisition could eliminate the time-consuming need for the Judiciary Committee staff to scour all of the material involving all of Nixon's aides to determine what is relevant to impeachment. Moreover, the grand jury material must also contain testimony of various Nixon aides who appeared before it-again possibly reducing the need for lengthy impeachment staff interviews...