Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most crying need for them is in medicine, not to cure disease (though the isotopes may do this too), but to probe basic biological processes. Radioactive carbon 14, for example, may be fed to human beings or laboratory animals. Though present only in sub-microscopic quantities, it will announce its presence to sensitive instruments. Physiologists can follow it through the body, even into individual cells...
There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center...
...historic imperial interests in keeping Russia out of the Middle East; it had large oil holdings in south-central Iran. Russia only glowered-until Iran acted. Then the Soviets pursued diversionary tactics. They demanded that UNO also investigate British-occupied Greece. The Soviet Ukraine piped up for a probe of Dutch-British troubles in Indonesia...
Canada, Howe declared, "had gained a new place as an industrial nation." To hold that place in peacetime, the Dominion would have to probe new export markets, expand old ones...
...aspect which the committee would no doubt probe thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...