Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space of five days this week, Sadat had two critically important dates to keep. The first was a probe for peace: his initial meeting with Richard Nixon's successor, just a year after the former U.S. President's visit to Egypt. The second was a gamble that a new Arab-Israeli war could be averted: a ceremony marking the reopening of the Suez Canal on the anniversary of its closure in 1967 at the outset...
...Probing. In mentally dismissing the possibility of violence, a psychiatrist can take missteps with a patient that might bring on an assault. For instance, an emergency-room doctor may start a ruckus merely by coming at a patient with a hypodermic filled with a sedative, which the patient may perceive as an attack. Or an analyst can probe too insistently into a patient's emotional troubles, sparking uncontrollable anger...
...bills through June and thus avoid a financial last hurrah. Beame in his emotional TV appearance called for a congressional investigation of why New York's giant banks are refusing to underwrite new issues of city bonds, and New York Congressmen are going to start such a probe. Though the banks have reasons-the city's habit of borrowing against future revenues to pay current bills would frighten any creditor-they can hardly relish the prospect of scrutiny by unfriendly liberal Democrats. Municipal unions are trying to get their members to withdraw deposits from First National City Bank...
...outgrowth of the Watergate scandal has been an intensified Government probe into contributions by American-based multinational corporations -especially oil companies-to foreign politicians. Two years ago, the Watergate special prosecutor's office, while investigating illegal contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign, discovered clues indicating that some U.S. firms had also been donating to political parties in other countries. The Securities and Exchange Commission later began looking into the matter. Reason: giving corporate cash to a foreign political party does not in itself violate U.S. law, but disguising the contributions on a company's books might contravene...
...ever since they met at a party five years ago. Walters tried not to let that friendship mar her reputation as a tough interrogator last week. Most of her questions were thoughtful and to the point, though she did not press Kissinger about his displeasure with the Israelis or probe his contention that Congress is largely to blame for South Viet Nam's fall. At one point, when Kissinger rephrased-and defanged-a Walters query about the validity of the domino theory, she cooed, "I like your questions much better than mine. They are clearer...