Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true meaning of the moonshot lies in the moment. A given moment is all one can be entirely aware of, can fully experience. During the actual shot, the what would happen was still essentially unknown, a true probe in the imagination; the space capsule could have yoyoed the moon and whipped off towards the sun on a screaming tangent. But more importantly, only we, observing the space shot at the moment it happened, can fully understand the extent of human knowledge, mythology, and curiosity at the time of the experience...
Patman's probe focused on that mystique-shrouded feature of Swiss banking, the anonymous numbered account. Robert M. Morgenthau, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, testified that such accounts have become increasingly popular with Americans. Some who use them are underworld hoodlums, but many more are otherwise ordinary businessmen who play the Swiss numbers game to cheat Washington out of "tax revenues in the many millions of dollars." The various ways in which such accounts are used to avoid income taxes, said Morgenthau, "are almost as numerous as the ways of earning money" (see box next...
...confessed strangler--Albert DeSalvo--in an East Cambridge courtroom. But now that the completed film blares out on the screen, it's hard to feel other than slightly nauseated--or even ribaldly amused--by its pastiche of lurid suggestions and high school locker jokes, topped with a machete-wielding probe of the psyche of the strangler...
Wilson noted that his committee had been given carte blanche by President Pusey and that his group had in fact taken advantage of this proviso to probe areas of the University that are generally closed to Faculty members, such as Harvard's hiring, admissions, and real estate policies. He plans to complete the report very soon...
...only if the meeting were closed to the public seems to have been unfounded. Nevertheless, it is difficult to guess exactly how much Wilson will reveal about his Committee's report because such reports are usually kept secret till they have been presented officially. Wilson may attempt to probe the feelings of the SFAC members without revealing any of his own but this maneuver will almost certainly be challenged...