Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riflemen's foxholes were dug and mortar positions neatly sand bagged, the 800 U.S. Marines on Hill 327 overlooking Danang airbase were chafing under guard duty and itching for action. Thus it was with considerable relief that the Marines got word that one company could move out to probe the nearby ridges and ravines. Cautiously the company fanned out in separate platoons to begin a 2½ day search for nesting Viet Cong. The first flush was not long in coming: that night one platoon startled some seven V.C.s, who took off running as the Marines fired after them...
...separates the white from the Negro community; but walking streets of Selma and Montgomery is not like in Harlem or Chicago's South Side. You no sullen or threatening stares. Centuries open oppression have implanted a different ; black faces either turn down and search sidewalk as you pass or probe your own face, for clues...
With some marines dug in on hills well beyond the outer defense perimeter that stretches some 20 miles around Danang, there was every prospect of action. "Obviously," said Karch, "the Viet Cong are going to probe us. We expect them, and we are ready...
...State Street Bank, worries because "banks are more highly loaned than at any time since the '20s." Says Ransom Cook, president of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank: "The proper criticism now is that banks aren't conservative enough." If Senator McClellan's current probe does nudge bankers in that direction, some bankers feel, it may even be worth the embarrassment...
Second of the week's big shots sent a smaller bird aloft, but the flight of the Ranger VIII moon probe was an even greater achievement. After a 66-hour, 234,300-mile trip, the spacecraft's six cameras panned across the luminous lunar surface taking thousands of snapshots of the great craters and dusty plains that U.S. astronauts hope to explore. Before the automated voyager crashed within 15 miles of its preselected impact point, the exquisite accuracy of all its maneuvers testified to the growing skill of U.S. spacemen...