Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith then organized a search with two of her young children and a 20-year- old niece. In remote Lopez Canyon, 18 miles north of Los Angeles, her daughter spotted a white heap that turned out to be Uribe -- robbed, raped and beaten to death. Smith told police of her discovery and was arrested for the murder...
...until the 1930s that Caltech Astronomer Fritz Zwicky recognized supernovas (he coined the name) as a class of exploding star fundamentally different from ordinary novas. With Colleague Walter Baade, he began formulating the modern theory about how supernovas explode and launched the first systematic search for them. While the average galaxy has only an occasional supernova, Zwicky reasoned, there are so many distant galaxies visible through large telescopes, astronomers should have no trouble finding the great explosions popping out all over the universe. At first Zwicky's colleagues thought the idea ridiculous, but over the four decades that followed...
...Crusoeites. In this terse sequel, he imagines an Englishwoman, Susan Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made...
...this happy country as their last asylum." From the beginnings of American history, no would-be immigrants have had greater claim on the national conscience than those seeking shelter from repression. But how to distinguish legitimate refugees from the mass of aliens who come to the U.S. merely in search of work or a change of life? The U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer last week that should smooth the path, at least slightly, for thousands fleeing death squads, invading armies and one- party states...
...huge floating cranes edged next to the exposed hull of the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, while salvage experts scampered along rails and divers plunged into the frigid oil-fouled waters in search of corpses. The vessel, which overturned just outside the harbor of Zeebrugge, Belgium, has become a rusting tomb for the unrecovered bodies of more than half the 134 passengers and crew who drowned in one of Britain's worst peacetime disasters in this century...