Word: scours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Help! Somebody call the exorcist! It seems that Starr is possessed by Joseph McCarthy's malevolent spirit. Come election time, the political parties had better scour the countryside for monasteries. Only a monk with an interest in politics will do as a candidate. GERA KORTE Kapaa, Hawaii...
Hersh opens the book with a description of Robert Kennedy, his brother's keeper, in the first hours after the President's assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader...
Suppose, for example, you wanted to start a site called recipe.com that would let users scour the Web for that perfect low-cal poultry dish for 12. Any search engine can link you to 100,000 sites that contain the word recipe, and to 10,000 more that also mention low-calorie and chicken. But there's no easy way--short of looking at every one of those sites--to guide your customers to the recipe that's right for them. HTML simply lacks the software muscle to handle the business world's endless and complex transactions. "I call...
...malevolently gleaming assegai. Mnisi, too, has by far her most memorable moment in the sleepwalking scene: opening with a plaintive song of mourning, the scene poignantly brings out the tragedy of her madness, as she alternates between playing in the dirt and trying, with a tragic wail, to scour her hands of imaginary blood...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...