Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government forces defending it. Whether it was the opening of a fresh Pathet Lao offensive or merely a hunger strike, no one could say, but hunger undoubtedly played a part. With the rice crops off 35% because of the floods, the Communists will be forced this fall to probe deeper than usual into government territory in their annual harvesting by bayonet...
...take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
...official probe has been made at Harvard. Dean Monro said yesterday that he has no reason to believe LSD is being made here. Until he does, he said, he is not planning to recommend that access to chemicals like lysergic acid be controlled more strictly in the laboratories...
When housewives grumble, politicians tremble. Thus the Federal Trade Com mission has launched a full-scale investigation into milk and bread price increases. A House subcommittee has held hearings about bread costs. In New York City, the city council has undertaken an all-out probe of food prices; and State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has filed suit seeking a court injunction against further milk price hikes. In Pennsylvania, where dairymen recently posted a 2?-per-qt. milk price raise, Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor, persuaded them to roll back to the old 28?-qt. line...
...Shack. Partly, this is the fault of medical men, especially surgeons. "We spent a small fortune designing a special brain probe," said Tullio Ronzoni of Aerojet-General Corp. "In two years we have sold exactly one - to the doctor who first asked for it. Every other brain surgeon wants his own design." Manufacturers share the blame. "Many of what were passed off as cardiac monitors were just old oscillators out of the radio shack," admitted Ronzoni. By week's end medicos and manufacturers alike had loudly agreed to work harder to get the bugs out of the gadgets. With...