Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moon, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 has soft-landed on Venus, and three U.S. Mariner spacecraft have swept past Mars, transmitting detailed pictures back to earth. Now scientists are preparing for an even more far-reaching journey. Last week NASA discussed its plans to launch the first unmanned planetary probe to the outer part of the solar system-a 550-lb. spacecraft that will fly past Jupiter...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association disclosed Friday it is conducting a probe of reported premature signings of college basketball players to professional contracts by the American Basketball Association...
Fortunately, a few of Groove Tube's commercials go beyond this kind of pleasant but pointlessly low humor, to probe deeper into the diseased minds of Madison Avenue with careful, closely-drawn parodies that are scarcely distinguishable from the originals. The new-car ad, for instance, uses a standard, wide-angle shot-sequence of a chromium monster gleaming in the middle of a desert, a sequence taped from an actual commercial. The dubbed-over pitch makes the claims about the car that, in an ever-tightening ring of circumlocution, the promoters of Fords, Chevrolets and Pontiacs have been working towards...
...questioning begins. The prosecutor, Garry, and Huggins' lawyer, Catherine Roraback of New Haven, probe the juror's attitudes-whether it is a deep-seated prejudice or an opinion formed by reading the evening paper-towards the case, the defendants, and the Panthers in general...
EDWARD ALBEE knows who the most destructive people are: they are the bright ones, the ones who are intelligent enough to know how to probe at each other's lives, uncover weakness, and carefully irritate sensitive spots and tear open old wounds. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf. Albee's play about a perceptive but weak history professor and his dominant, contemptuous wife, pits two destructive people against each other, and against their two unprepared and very vulnerable guests. The actors of the Atma Theater Company's current production, now playing at the Charles Playhouse, make it a very interesting...