Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignoring the battery of ITT lawyers who had been advising her. After two and a half hours of questioning, Mrs. Beard collapsed with chest pains, and worried Judiciary Committee members called off their polite interrogation. Back in Washington this week, they will vote on whether to continue the ITT probe...
Looking back now, this same American Kid might imagine that science fiction has changed a lot in the last five or six years. He could speculate on several trends in particular, one of which is symbolized by the landing of a three-legged, mirror-eyed moon probe which, by failing to sink into dusty oblivion, made Arthur C. Clarke's classic A Fall of Moondust, with its depiction of vast seas of lunar dust, immediately obsolete. Even as writers continued to anticipate it, the future had begun to arrive...
...they had known of ITT's convention contribution was when it became public, "on or about Dec. 3." Yet here was a letter, dated two months earlier, discussing the gift. Both men denied any recollection of McLaren's or Robertson's letters, but Kennedy's probe had again cast doubt on their testimony...
...odyssey of two years and half a billion miles-including a hazardous stretch through the asteroid belt-to fly to within 87,000 miles of the planet Jupiter. If all goes well, the unmanned ship-Pioneer 10-will radio back the first closeup pictures of the giant planet, probe its intense magnetic fields and radiation belts and perhaps peek at one of the twelve Jovian moons. Then with the planet's powerful gravity acting as a slingshot, Pioneer will be hurled beyond Jupiter to begin the first voyage of a man-made spacecraft out of the solar system...
...jury hearing. Not a single question was asked by a juror in that case, Hawes reports, and in the Jackson case, he says, the prosecutor specifically urged the jurors to ask no questions. Several grand jurors in the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick case also reported feeling frustrated; they wanted to probe beyond the evidence submitted...