Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is love in the time of cholera. But one day the cholera, and the war, must end. By saying that the love can prevail, Marquez seems highly optimistic. It is possible that he is saying Latin Americans should concentrate on the positive and the eternal in their search for political peace and that they should avoid the cholera and the unpleasantness...
...statements of people viewing Kennedy's motorcade in front of the fence, who felt the bullets just above their heads and even dropped to the ground to evade the shots. Moreover it was to the grassy knoll in front of the fence that police first gravitated in their search for Kennedy's assassin. If there were at least two gunmen, then it seems hard to deny that it was a group of conspirators who killed the president...
...laboratory test for the presence of the virus. The company thinks such a test, which would have a ready market at blood banks and hospitals, could generate sales of up to $90 million a year in the U.S. alone. Chiron is looking for a vaccine but warns that the search could take several years...
...class of '88 was braced for a far gloomier situation. When the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 508 points on Oct. 19, it raised the specter of an economic recession and widespread joblessness. Fearful seniors -- joined by a smattering of overwrought underclassmen -- rushed to college placement offices in search of advice, sometimes creating such a backlog that students had to wait a month or more for an appointment with a counselor. Corporations grew just as edgy: some recruiters put campus visits on hold until they could sort out the aftereffects of the market meltdown...
...Hamilton. Before being allowed to publish In Search of J.D. Salinger, the British critic, poet and biographer (Robert Lowell) was put through two rewrites and 1 1/2 years of legal proceedings, culminating in a landmark court ruling that many publishing insiders fear will hamper the future practice of biography. Hamilton's trouble started when he came across more than 100 unpublished letters, stored mainly in the libraries of Princeton and the University of Texas at Austin. The correspondence dates from 1939 to 1961, and provided him with a rich deposit of raw material and, at first, quotations. Salinger apparently...