Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogs would be turned loose to find them. The police chose a passenger car at random in the airport's parking lot, hid the dynamite under the bumper, and after warning parking-lot personnel, took the dogs to another part of the airport to begin the search. While the dogs were searching, one of the parking attendants, who did not hear about the training run, returned the car to its owners-an unsuspecting elderly couple, who promptly drove...
...dynamite is not dangerous, police insisted, but they alerted patrols on highways around St. Louis to search for the potentially explosive car. They made more than 200 phone calls to those who flew into the airport that night, but all in vain. Until the elderly couple discovered their plight while watching television, Canine Commander Lieut. John Reeg had only the traditional explanation, the one about communications...
Ironically, the scandal is one consequence of Brazil's economic advance. For more than a decade, millions of peasant families have fled the countryside in search of factory jobs in the cities. For most, the effort has been futile. Lacking skills and education, they have settled for poverty-level employment at best-and in all too many instances, no job at all. By working ten hours a day, six days a week, an ambitious woman might earn about $75 per month, scarcely enough to survive in a wooden and tin-can hovel, let alone support her children...
...speech also put a noteworthy emphasis on ecumenism, the search for unity between the world's 700 million Roman Catholics and 400 million other Christians. This could be one of the crucial symbolic issues of John Paul's pontificate, and it is an area on which his thinking is unknown. In the same speech he vowed that he would pursue unity "without diluting doctrine but, at the same time, without hesitation." Still, the new Pope's thinking on steps toward reunion is unknown...