Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee might look into the booming stock market, he got a rude jolt. As the news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
Careful coordination could bring together adequate facilities for pioneer courses in the world's southern continents. Unlike newspaper commentaries on current events, the two courses could probe deeply into two increasingly important frontiers...
...charge that he had "used" secret documents "in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the U.S." (i.e., he had stored the papers in his apartment). By admitting guilt on one count of his indictment, he would avoid a trial that might, according to a top official, probe embarrassingly into details of an "emotional involvement" with a person to whom he fed information. In return, the U.S. agreed to drop two other counts, thus saving itself and The Netherlands the further embarrassment of having to prove that Petersen acted "to the advantage of a foreign nation...
...tales of Nickell's probe plans spread beyond the Illinois campus. Finally, last week, Henry decided he had had enough. "The search for a new president,'' he wrote the trustees, "which began on the highest professional and ethical level, has degenerated into a process of public review which repudiates the board's own procedural method." As for the presidency, he would not take it even if it were offered...
...whole direction of foreign policy. McCarthy's enemies oppose communism just as vigorously as he does, but they choose to fight it in a different way. It is time that the censure be over and the smoke-screen blown away. Another debate is needed now--one that will probe to the heart of the foreign policy problem...