Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research and treatment this summer, Muller hopes to "probe the various elements within the treatment itself." He will be working with 60 subjects frightened of public speaking. "Such phobias," he says, "can seriously hinder people in their careers...
Fill the syringe, don't spill, hot glutin, like sperm thinned out, you're a better man, the ultimate power of the penis is yours, life-giving death, the shock of mortality, the paralytic realization of death. There are too many bruises on your arm, so probe a little, who cares anymore? It'll only hurt for a second. Push -- watchit goddamit your fingers are so wet it's slipping shit!--the bubbles are out. One last review before...
...OBERDORFER. Assigned to Nixon ever since the Post hired him away from the then dying Saturday Evening Post last year, Oberdorfer, 37, writes a perceptive and critical weekly column. He also covers breaking news. He was one of the first reporters to convey Nixon's style of operation, probe the efforts to change Spiro Agnew's image and note Senator Strom Thurmond's lack of power in the new Administration. A somewhat stuffy writer, Oberdorfer has nevertheless conveyed his impatience with the slow pace of Government under Nixon. As the headline on one of his columns gibed...
Five days later, if all goes well, Mariner 7, a second Mars probe, will make a sweep across the south polar regions of the planet, shooting closeup photographs of the white polar cap and areas that appear to change color seasonally. Mariner 7 is scheduled to be launched on March 24, but will take less time than its predecessor to make the trip; its trajectory is different and the Earth will have moved some 25 million miles closer to Mars during the month that separates the shots...
...value as a historical curiosity. Surely the sight of such frenetically phony stunts as Jimi Hendrix mounting, igniting and finally destroying his electric guitar will seem as quaint as newsreels of the Lindy do today. But Pennebaker ultimately lets down the present as well as posterity by refusing to probe any deeper than the onstage details...