Word: searchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet press, meanwhile, lambasted some aspects of the relief effort as bungled and inept. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, said that because of a lack of cranes "seconds and hours are being lost -- that means lives." It complained that for each Soviet searcher "we have about ten observers who give advice rather than clear up the rubble." Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya asked, "Why does it happen that many families are still living out in the open though there is an abundance of tents?" Some of the homeless spend their nights huddled over bonfires. Even a Communist Party commission report lashed...
After choosing a line of attack, Oracle switches control to a separate unit called Searcher. Designed by Carl Ebeling, a Carnegie-Mellon graduate student, and manufactured under a Defense Department grant, Searcher is a bread-box- size device that contains 64 special-purpose microprocessors. Each is assigned & to one square of the chessboard. When a piece lands on a particular square, the microchip dedicated to that square determines the likely outcomes. Operating at peak speeds, the 64 chips can evaluate more than 175,000 positions per sec., or 30 million in the 3 min. allowed for each move of tournament...
...explosion was over in a flash, but the horror of it all deepened through the week. Day and night, rescue workers picked through the rubble, desperately looking for survivors. Cranes gingerly hoisted slabs of broken concrete up and away from the site, while bulldozers scraped away debris. A searcher somewhere inside the wreckage kept yelling through a bullhorn: "If anybody can hear me, please call for help." No one did. By Saturday, members of the rescue teams were still uncovering corpses buried under the avalanche of what was once the U.S. embassy. At one point, the rescuers pulled the body...
...through the area. The government suspects that the villagers were trying to protect the abductors. Indeed, he kidnapers were reportedly hidden overnight by a member of Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), and the government has placed several villagers under arrest. Exclaimed a frustrated government searcher: "We've been within inches of them every blasted night...
Back in 1971, Philip José Farmer abandoned the sci-fi world of space opera with a book that introduced this "Riverworld," titled To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In a tantalizing curtain raiser, Sir Richard Francis Burton, searcher for the source of the Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most...