Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since when does overt action like boarding and capturing a U.S. Navy ship in international waters [Feb. 2] constitute not less than an act of war and demand not less than immediate retaliation? Our enemies probe our military might knowing full well that the only retaliation forthcoming will be a stern reprimand...
Washington would like to see Saigon probe the N.L.F. to ascertain whether there is any chance of driving a wedge between it and Hanoi-even though most high U.S. officials in Viet Nam believe that the North dominates the Viet Cong's political leadership. But South Vietnamese officials are so fear ful of a U.S. attempt to foist an N.L.F.-dominated coalition government on them that they have refused to consider any formal meetings. It is conceivable, suggested an observer, that the North is trying to drive its own wedge between Washington and Saigon...
...than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning for the uncomplicated youth of Nadine." Given this dilemma, Resnais and screen-writer Jorge Semprun probe the nature of commitment to a cause, and the necessity of commitment even to a lost cause in order to live with self respect. This is a Fritz Lang theme, but where Lang sees commitment as necessary but essentially futile, Resnais and Semprun find for Diego, in Milne's words...
Anticipating a probe from the Administration, U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough, veteran of the classic 1962 confrontation with President Kennedy over steel prices, turned wry in defense of his industry. Said Blough: "Washington can inflate the money supply with impunity, labor can raise wages far beyond gains in productivity, but hold steel prices down and everyone will be happy and rich-everyone, that is, except the steelmakers, of course...
Livingston was the first director of the Accelerator, which began in 1962 to produce six-billion-electron-volt electrons to probe the fundamental questions of matter...