Word: plumbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies to Europe and hops right back with a grand collection of German expressionist art, finally shakes up the entire U.S. economy by promoting a more or less mythical company known as Universal Widget. Why? Why, because he is plumb crazy about a shapely security analyst, Lee Remick. Why else...
...three times in cliffhanging sessions, planning strategy and trying to divine whether steel would follow Steele. White House staffers got in touch with labor leaders, and Washington Attorney Clark Clifford, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric busily checked with steel management sources to try to plumb the industry's intentions. This time there were no s.o.b. outbursts from the President, no FBI men pounding doors in the night-but there was almost as much suspense...
...foreign policy. The Communists were winning the cold war. and all that talk about trouble with the Chinese was an "illusion." (Same day, Peking launched a new attack on Moscow's "fierce visage but faint heart.") Then, in his folksiest manner. Khrushchev told the people just how plumb lucky they were to be in Russia and not in the U.S., where elections are actually contested...
...objections of the Holy Office?that are giving them new insights into the nature and form of revelation and bringing them into intellectual cooperation with Protestant scholars. Was there really a star of Bethlehem? Were there really wise men from the East? Some scholars, in their efforts to plumb the positive depths of meaning in the Scriptures with tools of modern critical research, are willing to question these revered ideas. A new generation of Catholic thinkers, particularly in Europe, has been finding new approaches to theology and, in the case of the late Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and others...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...