Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans really happy in their relentless search for trim, regimented bodies? By most standards, they are the healthiest people in history, generally blessed with low cholesterol levels and normal electrocardiograms and blood counts. Yet they seem to have become so preoccupied with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart...
...nation's media have blanketed Atlanta in search of news. When the "Jackson Action Rainbow Express" pulled into town, it was met by a crowd of 5000. One-fourth of the crowd was from the media...
Call it the Vice-Presidential Clearinghouse. Michael Dukakis is casting such a wide net in his search for a running mate that any day now Democratic members of Congress may get a letter from Ed McMahon announcing, "Congratulations. You may already be a vice-presidential nominee...
Take, for example, the German graduate student in search of a thesis topic, who claims "competences in Philologik, Linguistik, Pedagogik, Psycho-Analytik and Aerobik," but whose command of English is not so confident as his manner of address. "What I like is to take your 'campus-novels' . . . and compare them with the works of your better competitors -- as, Thom. Hardy, Max Beerbohm, J.I.M. Stewart . . . and David Lodge." Bradbury cannot resist compounding the young man's confusion ("It was clever of you . . . to work out that in fact I am several if not all of the authors you mention") while offering...
...Vincennes, the Iranians vent their anger and the U. S. wrestles with the issue of collective guilt. -- Tarnished but unindicted, Attorney General Meese finally bows out. -- How will Michael Dukakis, the consummate straight arrow, act on the world stage? -- Dukakis casts a wide net in search of a running mate...