searched out

When The Daily Graphic, a newspaper owned by The Daily Mirror in London, set up operations in Ghana in 1950, it searched out local photojournalists.

The story goes that one night while shooting dice upstairs at the Rocking Chair, Lauderdale was digging the tunes echoing up from downstairs, and searched out Charles: “One night he approached me and told me that he had a record label. Wow!”

And so last month at the NFL’s fall owners meeting, Irsay searched out the closest cameras and tape recorders and constructed a bully pulpit so he could have a proper launchpad to dunk on Snyder.

Think of Sir Richard Francis Burton, who searched out the source of the Nile and visited Mecca disguised as a Muslim pilgrim, or T. E. Lawrence, he of “of-Arabia” fame.

By Page 40, when she refers to two unflattering front-page stories in the New York Times, I relented and searched out the news myself.