Word: scours
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...scours are diarrhea. "I had some scour stopper in a bucket, but it was too late." Chester Hickle wandered back in, recalling a violent time, years ago, when a "man as innocent as you or me was over there in the cafe eating a bowl of soup or chili and they just shot him off the stool...
Most people who struggle for stardom live in New York or California. Even the giddiest know they have little chance of being discovered in a drugstore in Manhattan, Kans., or a restaurant in Los Angeles, Texas. They scour the trade newspapers for notices of auditions. The more fortunate have union memberships that get them past guarded doors. The rest try to fib their way in or, if less bold, wait for "open calls." Known as "cattle calls," they may be publicity stunts. But for an unknown, they may be the only hope...
...still very active. Army intelligence estimates that there are 20 to 40 armed men, Cuban or Grenadian Marxists, hiding out in the hills. Two of them fired on a five-man U.S. patrol in the central jungle last week, then fled back into the bush. Army helicopters continued to scour the Grenada shoreline, hunting for enemy boats, while nine-man infantry squads staked out trails in the jungle. Roadblocks are still manned after dark. The sight of well-armed American soldiers has become so familiar that one hotelkeeper grumpily noted, "I'm tired of seeing guns...
...called in to scour Lorton. Meanwhile the State Department launched an urgent "damage assessment" to figure out if any U.S. secrets had been compromised. The problem is, because no microfilm records had been made, authorities could not be sure exactly what top-secret information the mislaid safe originally contained. In fact, the only certainty last week was that, in the words of one State Department official, "there sure as hell were lapses all over the place...
...program--funded by Brown's maintenance department and a matching grant from an unidentified New York alumnus--pays students $8 an hour to scour the campus every morning for litter, and the money the students make is donated to the financial aid fund...