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Word: searchingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trod a winding red path in our search for the old North End, the road that makes up the two-and-a-half mile Freedom Trail which wends its way through Boston and Charlestown, retracing the steps of those Great White Males who fought the American Revolution...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: `One If By Land, Two If By Sea' | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

People who are still looking for jobs live in a city that is a series of widely scattered, but vivid, encounters. I decided to see Boston as a new arrival, in search of work. Starting, of course, at Logan Airport...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...first eye-opener. If you needed work--now--if Mommy and Daddy died abruptly (and--why not--violently), without a will, and Harvard disintegrated into a moldy pile of fellowship applications and GRE pamphlets, who would hire you and for how much? That wasn't the point of this search, but fail-safes are worth remembering...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...search was over. Obviously, I didn'thave a job, but I had looked at things in Boston Iotherwise wouldn't have; my city had shifted abit. I would like to do it again, in earnest.Stretching the glimpses of a day's search intoseveral months, living for a time in a string ofseparate jobs, is a good education; it's a vividreminder that there are many worlds jostlingaround each other at the periphery of our limitedvision...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...seemingly squandered a chance to gain valuable information when it failed to pursue the MIA issue between the time of the cease-fire in 1973 and the fall of South Viet Nam in 1975. In the north, where many airmen vanished, mountainous terrain continues to hamper searches, and the highly acidic soil quickly erodes remains. Search operations are time consuming and expensive for impoverished Hanoi. "The Vietnamese haven't got much incentive to make searches," says a U.S. official in Southeast Asia. "I mean, how much is in it for them, other than finding the remains of a dead American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam The Wound That Will Not Heal | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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