Word: searchers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...searchers, "Becky" (she asked that her real name not be used), described how she made her rounds on a recent training exercise in a large city. A 31-year-old Energy Department employee who began training as a nest searcher seven years ago, Becky and 10 colleagues were assigned to hunt for a simulated nuclear device in a hotel with 32 floors and 2,052 rooms...
...radiation. Freshly paved roads, yellow rest-room tiles, the Vermont granite used in some of Washington's federal buildings, a patient walking out of a hospital after radiation therapy, even a bunch of bananas can set off the detectors. Finding a nuclear bomb in a city, according to a searcher, "is like looking for a needle in a haystack of needles...
Xiaomeng, an expert on Chinese agricultural development, was winding up his second year as a visiting re- searcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development...
Matthiessen was an environmentalist before the term was fashionable -- just as he was a "searcher" before it became a '60s job description, and an apostle of "male wildness" before Robert Bly got out his drums. Yet he is too tough-minded to dwindle into New Age pieties, and even though he does not hesitate to call the Gulf War "one of the great disgraces in our history," he equally stays clear of reflex anti-Establishmentism: at times, he says, he has been obliged to remind more militant friends that police self-discipline makes this "a very easy country...
Archie Douglas, Houghton's guidance counselor at St. Paul's, described him as a "happy kid, a very reflective kid, intelligent, a real searcher...