Word: scour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesian army has set up scores of its barbed-wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
...Worden travels between Andalusia and La Mancha at a time when "Inquisition ruffians" scour the hills for outlaws, and banditry is rampant. He is waylaid, not by brutes of any stripe, but by two gorgeous Moslem sisters whom he meets underneath a deserted inn. They claim they are descended from the family of van Worden's Iberian mother, and wish to love and share him equally because they love each other...
Small wonder, then, that clubs are recruiting hard. "We have had cocktail parties and brunches where we have asked members to scour the bushes and bring their relatives and friends," says Thomas O'Connor, manager of the Ravisloe Country Club near Chicago. Like some other socially stuffy institutions, New York's Scarsdale Golf Club has begun to admit a few Jews. An occasional club has resorted to seeking new members through newspaper ads. Those ads, however, must run in the same paper with come-ons for an increasingly popular alternative to golf clubs: the residential development that includes...
...franchises lost $150,000 last year-partly, says Brown, because "they did not have very good food. I figured that upgrading it would be my first task." So Brown recruited a platoon of young executives and told them to scour the country until they found the perfect hamburger...
...shipping charges. His advantage stems from the same factors that enable Japanese and Hong Kong manufacturers to push into Western markets with low-priced textiles and TV sets. Pao operates with modern equipment and has a large pool of cheap labor in Hong Kong. While his European competitors scour the Continent for anybody willing to work for seamen's wages, Pao has set up a training school for the lengthening lines of young Chinese eager to go to sea for very low pay. In addition, Pao's enormous volume of business lets him work on a profit margin...