Word: scours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social compact was a joke: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us." As for savings, which are an economic statement of faith in the future, what was the point? To have more rubles with which to scour empty shelves or to stuff under the mattress? But there was also no point in complaining. The Ministry of Finance was, like everything else, subordinated to the Ministry of Fear. The ruble, quite simply, was the monetary manifestation of totalitarianism...
...DYLAN: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOLS. 1-3 (Columbia). Since its release almost five months ago, this mind-snapping collection of rare, unreleased or alternate takes of 58 Dylan tunes has racked up sales over 300,000 and has inspired everyone from Paul McCartney to Frank Zappa to scour their vaults. This collection ($45.95 for the 3-CD set) stands apart, though: it is the audio notebooks of rock's greatest songwriter. Songs that Dylan leaves off a record would make history for anyone else. The last three tunes in Vol. 3, including the beautiful Series of Dreams, are the most...
...least one early-warning satellite is parked over the Indian Ocean at all times, using its infrared eye to scour Iraqi territory every 12 seconds for the hot flare of a missile launch. Upon detection, an astonishing split-second relay of signals is set into motion. First, the satellite sends its data simultaneously to an Air Force ground station in Woomera, Australia, and to the U.S. Space Command's Missile Warning Center near Colorado Springs. Computers in Colorado instantly sort through the information, identify individual missiles, project target areas and flash the results by satellite back to the gulf...
...disappear, not overnight but in the course of a hundred tuna casseroles served every Friday. No one is immune from dissatisfaction and its companion, desire, which can be tamped down but comes back unannounced. "You might find it when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate for a baby's lunch." It hits Nora's neighbor Donna Durgin one day when she is "wounded by the kindness" of the Sears repairman, who doesn't charge her for fixing the washer because he can tell...
...nonsense historian, Pitts does not merely scour written records but gets out and prowls city streets and country lanes for gems of the nation's "built history." And she is not averse to a touch of cloak-and-dagger. In 1976 she learned that the Chrysler Building in New York City was going into receivership and the owners wanted to raze it. She rushed to the city and slipped unobserved into the skyscraper. After a top-to-bottom tour, she saved the art deco masterpiece...