Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walt Schneider of Cannondale, Conn. Schneider's business is selling wood-burning stoves and fireplace accessories. Every time OPEC tacks yet another increase onto the price of a barrel of imported oil, fresh waves of Schneider's neighbors come streaming into his shop in search of a solution to their overheated bills...
Following a steady procession of other curious adventurers, Webber launched his first search for the Concepción in January 1977. He was backed by a consortium of bankers and aided by a team of divers, cartographers, numismatists and electronics technicians. His fishing boat was equipped with sophisticated tracking instruments in addition to $15,000 worth of maps made from aerial photographs. This was not, as Webber put it, a Captain Kidd operation. Said he: "It was purely academic, based on research and scientific technology." Webber did have to strike a sort of treasure hunter's bargain, however...
...Search of History, Theodore H. White...
...game six of the Cup finals between Boston and New York. Though the Bruins led the series three games to two, the blueshirts had two nights earlier grabbed a tight contest on Boston ice and hopes were high that the New Yorkers could return the series to Beantown in search of their first Cup since...
...Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify his search for a new Latin American identity and his pet theme, alienation. Hopscotch's structure reflects its themes of circularity and fragmentation. It is two novels in one book; Cortazar suggests the reader approach the chapters both consecutively and in nonsequential order...