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Word: probe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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They say in total truth: "We aren't going anywhere," and ask why, then, they must patrol and probe and await the sniper's bullet or the shell that may find them on their hills, and why they must be there at all. They do not yearn to leap from their lines and drive across the snow-whitened enemy hills. Far from it. But they do yearn for an end of this war and they would rather fight to end it than await an ending that never comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE FIGHTING, WAITING EIGHTH ARMY | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Clams & Birds. In contrast with the primitive dianetician, who was content merely to probe the subject's life here on earth, the scientologist gets him stretched on a couch, gripping the electrodes and usually wearing blinkers and tries to reach preconception pains as fast as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Remember Venus? | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Other City Councillors contacted last night expressed indifference to the Red probe and said that for once it appeared the Council would not take action on "the Reds at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Probe Unnecessary, All Reds Gone, Lynch Says | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

...telephone interview with the CRIMSON, Velde said the committee will "more than likely" call people from Harvard to the witness stand as part of its extensive probe into Communist infiltration in American education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Probe to Hit University in '53 | 11/26/1952 | See Source »

...former New Deal lawyer in Washington, he worked as a liaison agent between the U.N. and Senate committees investigating Communist activities among American personnel of the organization. However, a counsel for the McCarran Senate sub-committee conducting one probe said Feller himself was not under investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Law Teacher, Aide to UN's Lie, Commits Suicide | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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