Sentence:  On this issue , the President received a detailed report from his U. N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson , who had just returned from Paris , and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to <WSD>search</WSD> for a face-saving way - for both Paris and Tunis - out of the imbroglio . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of