As the first bird call came over the car speakers, I saw him searching intently out the back window.
At the ruins of the World Trade Center, Thanksgiving was a day to keep removing debris, to keep pouring water onto the smoldering wreckage, to keep searching intently through the rubble for anything that might be part of a body.
Russell: Hey Dad, Don't know if Mom shared what I wrote, but this week has been really tough, we lost a sailor over the side in the middle of nowhere, and searched intently for two days, we had aircraft, another ship and helos, but to no avail.
Jean highlights research showing that college grads searching intently for the perfect job tended to earn 20% more, but were not happier than their peers who were content with "good enough".
While we hear them howling nightly, we've never seen a coyote so close to the house, but with summer's bounty waning and winter's scarcity just around the corner, they're searching more intently for food.
At Citigroup, he intently searches for the risks and rewards of investing in distressed Japanese debt or buying the investment banking operations of Schroders, the British firm Citigroup acquired in 2000.
Just released from "10 years of hospitals and halfway houses," Tom is intently searching for signs of his past, now buried along with the family home under a reservoir.
This man, blinking through the haze of cigarette smoke, intently searching the room for her, rubbing absently at the scar above his eyebrow where, when he was a boy, a schoolmate had hit him with a badminton racquet — this was her man.
Others familiar with the scene in Falls Church, which was again intently searched for evidence, said the closest witness was perhaps 90 yards away when a 47-year-old shopper was shot once in the head as she loaded packages into her car in an open-sided garage.
For there I was, standing in a German library, searching for clues, peering intently at a photograph of a boy whose name will likely be forever lost, and replicating the very gesture of decipherment that the fictional character Jacques Austerlitz describes in Sebald's novel.
