Word: probed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loud Congressmen. Into San Francisco, to probe this bet, came a House Marine subcommittee, chairmanned by Congressman James A. O'Leary (D., N.Y.), no friend of Kaiser's. Maritime Commission Auditor Alonzo Bryan made some scandalous charges to the committee...
Conrad liked best to talk about people. "I do not mean gossip . . . he liked to probe the psychology of people, known or even unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
...Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After Erdmann's usual greetings to the assembled throng-he always gives a special greeting to the doctor who has referred the patient-he opened the abdomen of the patient, another woman. Then Dr. Erdmann proceeded to probe about in her vitals for a long-in his case a sensationally long-20 minutes. Then he looked up brightly and confessed without embarrassment, "Dammit all, I can't seem to get oriented here." Vanity Fair ran a full-page spread...
This week the fight still raged-the exchange appointed a special committee to probe the whole idea; non-members merely wanted the exchange to lay off. But one thing seemed certain: if the Big Board keeps up the good work on "special offerings" and revises its rules to permit corporation membership, many a nonmember firm may toss in the towel, apply for a seat...
...editorial writer, John Cline. Mr. Cline sat down to write an editorial about the Army's discovery. "The more I thought," he said, "the more the whole thing smelled." Upshot: the Star assigned veteran Reporter Joseph Fox, who covers the Justice Department, to investigate. Reporter Fox's probe led him to the Virginia farm of one C. Russell Bull, whose wife readily explained one of the markers: a figure 9, formed by gunny sacks in a field, which pointed at a factory. Mrs. Bull said they were fertilizer sacks dropped from a truck to dry; when Army...