Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the campus disturbances of the late 1960s, Ivy educators say search committees began to place a premium on crisis management. The result was that law school deans and those with strong administrative backgrounds and keen negotiating skills fast became the presidential ideal...
...this "bastard son of a hundred maniacs" worked as a school janitor in Springwood, U.S.A., where his hobby was kidnaping and murdering teenagers. Tried for these crimes, he was freed on a technicality: "Oh, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place." So the parents of Elm Street tracked the demon down to his boiler room and burned him -- to death, some...
...good, unrenovated woody is hard to find. The frame must bear the original manufacturer's number if it is to be considered vintage. Boat brokers and their scouts comb through the backwoods of Michigan, New England, Canada and even Scandinavia in search of suitable craft. The cold freshwater lakes and the long, dry winter-storage seasons in those areas make them prime hunting grounds for well-preserved hulls...
...helps Joe out on weekends when he is not chuckling over TV shows. The scenes in which Joe falls woefully short of his ideal of priestly fellowship are wicked social comedy. For days after his curate's arrival, Joe goes through an ordeal of embarrassed detective work in search of the key fact he had failed to learn about the young priest: his name. When the curate's trendy seminary pals come to the rectory for a meal, they grate on Joe by questioning the rule of celibacy and saying they wish they could celebrate Mass with a beer...
...assistance from Sweet Honey, the revered guitarist Doc Watson and a chorus of school kids. It is Bob Dylan who builds the bridge into the present. His version of Pretty Boy Floyd, performed with acoustic guitar and harmonica, is filled with the fierce surprise of a man going in search of his past and, against all odds, finding...