Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the Baker probe was just getting started, and Washington was alive with reports that the names of Bobby Baker and Lyndon Johnson would be even more closely connected...
...really sudden, nor was it an invention. It was a slow discovery. And it had begun where Bucky Fuller likes to begin: with a probe into the pattern of the universe. To make that probe, Fuller was struggling to develop a new tool-a geometry of energy. In this search of such a geometry, Fuller was using spheres as idealized models
...high-altitude reconnaissance plane like the U2. Jane's also suggested that Russia's His and Her space-twin flights "failed to achieve all their objectives, which may have included orbital rendezvous," pointed out that the Russians, in addition, lost contact with their rocket probe of Mars...
...projects, although begun with more modest objectives, far exceeded expectations, the report stated, citing Major Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit flight and the Mariner II probe that relayed a wealth of data about Venus. "With the great Saturn booster due to become operational in 1964-65," Jane's added, "the suggestion that America and the Soviet Union should work together on major projects like lunar exploration is both timely and sensible now that the prospective partners are attaining a measure of equality...
Increasingly Thin. When Manhattan's seven dailies were about to be shut down by a strike just one year ago, the institute's vice president, Irving Oilman, saw a chance to probe for the values people find in newspapers when they cannot take them for granted and an opportunity to measure the ability of television and radio to fill the void. But Gilman was unable to find a client. Both publishers and broadcasters seemed afraid of the possible results. The institute went ahead anyway, picking up the tab itself for lengthy personal interviews with a total...