Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unreal. Sprague learned some of his tireless approach from his parents, both psychiatrists, who taught him to probe and analyze. Then, during World War II, he learned an unforgettable lesson when Navy shipmates tried to rescue some drifting Japanese sailors and were riddled by Japanese gunfire. "You've got to have a society," Sprague says now, "in which people who transgress will be caught and punished." Even after the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty, he continues to support it, and last week the Philadelphia D.A.'s office proposed amendments to state law that they...
...application of craft to an unreal problem. It represents a process, not a solution. "Potts," says Art Critic Thomas Garver, in the catalogue introducing the car, "regards the true work of art to be the artist himself. The car is not a public object but a building way to probe more deeply into himself...
...from Satanism and witchcraft to the edges of science, as in Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's experiment in extrasensory perception from aboard Apollo 14. In this area, serious researchers in the field of parapsychology are increasingly interacting with devotees of such claimed occult gifts as prophecy and telepathy to probe the powers of the human mind. Indeed, the very word occult?denoting hidden knowledge, secret arts or unexplainable phenomena?is no longer fully appropriate. While some practitioners still jealously guard their secrets, much of what once seemed occult has long since emerged from underground...
...fact that Popkin was a Vietnam scholar and had worked with Daniel Ellsberg '52 at MIT did light bulbs and ring bells in the heads of government investigators, however. And when a grand jury was empanelled in Boston to probe possible Pentagon Paper-related crimes in Massachusetts, Popkin found himself on its list...
...October 29 hearing, the government had apparently not yet established within its own ranks its intention to probe Popkin for other possible sources of information. "We are not interested in exposing or compromising miscellaneous sources of information which Mr. Popkin may rely upon in his research and in his writing," Assistant U. S. Attorney Warren P. Reese told Judge W. Arthur Garrity of Boston's Federal District Court. "We are concerned with illegal activity involving the acquisition and dissemination of government documents, and that limits the subject matter of our inquiry...