Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spadesful. As a county grand jury subpoenaed some 55 witnesses to probe the Marshall death, Texas Rangers and the FBI began their own investigations...
...Angels? with expectable enthusiasm, while a Roman Catholic prelate called it "a dirty glove thrown in the face of the church." It is, more exactly, a nearly successful work of art, ultimately confusing, relentlessly ambiguous, but strong and moving; and it uses its bizarre theme as a metaphor to probe toward the vague but universal demons that can rise in any man and drive him insane. Listening to all the mad nuns singing their beautiful liturgies in clear and healthy young voices, a villager suggests: "Perhaps there are no devils in the convent after all"-just women...
...follow-up to the steel-price struggle of a fortnight before. But the Administration denied that there was any connection-and the facts seemed to bear out the denial. At the height of the price fight, Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department did set in motion a grand jury probe of steel pricing, but that investigation is just getting started. The Justice Department investigation that led to last week's indictment started more than a year ago, in March 1961, shortly after the new Administration took office...
Congressional Democrats joined in the hue and cry. Brooklyn's Representative "Manny" Celler said that his Antitrust subcommittee would hold hearings on steel pricing beginning in early May. Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, that intrepid investigator, said that his Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee also would probe the steel industry...
Three-Way Tug. To be true to nature, says Moore, the sculptor must probe, not merely reflect. But he must also be true to his materials, for wood, metal and stone are also a part of nature. Pebbles worn by the sea "show nature's way of working stone. Some of the pebbles I pick up have holes right through them." Moore gouges holes in his sculpture to "make it immediately more three-dimensional." The making of a sculpture becomes a three-way tug of war between the inner life of the subject, the rhythm of the material...