Word: probed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When and under what circumstances it will become fruitful to resume negotiations with the Russians is a difficult matter of judgment. Truman and his party, I feel, are more likely to probe this matter carefully than would be the Republicans. The Vinson gesture was abortive because the President failed to clear it with the Secretary of State, with our principal allies, and with the Republican representatives of a policy which must continue to be bi-partisan. If it had been so cleared, there is much to be said for the proposed action. It indicates, I think, that the President, while...
...Louis Post-Dispatch admonishes cubs, with good reason, that probe is to be "generally reserved for surgeons," and is not a synonym for investigate. (But, like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...
Advising System to Get Probe...
Bender also requested the Council to start a thorough probe of the entire advising system, which, he explained, is being considered by a faculty committee...
...gone up $1.4 billion, reaching an annual rate of $209 billion. In some lines which had felt a sag in sales, strange and wonderful things were happening. A few weeks ago, for example, some home appliances were in the doldrums. But when the Iron Age set out to probe the slump last week, it was flabbergasted: demand had picked up so much that manufacturers were again talking up allocations to their dealers...