Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treatment. Kennedy also must go on serving as surrogate father to Ethel Kennedy's eleven children. Above all, if Teddy were a candidate, the many unanswered questions about Chappaquiddick would be reopened. But if he were nominated at the last minute, there would be much less time to probe them thoroughly than if he were running hard...
...thought it made sense to have several different drives to probe the different sectors of the economy," he said. "If one drive is not doing well, it won't hurt other drives that are successful...
...investigations of the U.S. intelligence community are gradually moving ahead. Every week a presidential panel hears secret testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic activities. That probe was scheduled to conclude April 4, but the commission's chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that he will ask for an extension of several weeks...
...great flying reptiles lived near the shore, leading paleontologists to conclude that they fed on fish. But Lawson's fossils were found in nonmarine sediments far from any seas. In fact, Lawson writes in Science, the pterosaurs may well have been carrion eaters, using their long necks to probe the carcasses of dead dinosaurs...
Dorfman is reluctant to probe behind the comfortable surface and reveal the character of her sitters. We are too aware of how much she cares for and depends on these people. Her vulnerability is too obvious and it prevents her from achieving any kind of emotional distance from her subjects. She pinpoints the problem of many of her photographs herself, in a comparison she draws between herself and Diane Arbus...