Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion, they probe mercilessly for his Swiss bank account number...
...Israeli Probe. U.N. negotiators still hoped that Israeli Ambassador Tekoah would return to New York this week or soon thereafter for the resumption of the Jarring talks. When he arrives, he is expected to ask Jarring to relay to Egypt and Jordan a set of questions that will seek to probe Arab intentions: Are the Arabs ready to live at peace with Israel, and by what kind of arrangement are they prepared to secure that peace? If the Israelis receive what they regard as satisfactory answers to their general inquiry-and if the fragile cease-fire does not fall apart...
...better understood today than was the circulation of the blood before William Harvey. "We probably age because we run out of evolutionary program," according to Dr. Alexander Comfort, director of the Medical Research Council Group on Aging at University College, London. "In this we resemble a space probe that has been 'designed' by selection to pass Mars, but that has no further built-in instructions once it has done so, and no components specifically produced to last longer than that. It will travel on, but the failure rate in its guidance and control mechanisms will steadily increase...
...critics charge, still give credit for blood donations but not for educational advancement. Because the finest stubbornly protect one another, Mayor John Lindsay recently appointed a special citizens' commission to investigate the extent of police graft ?and thereby provoked the patrolmen's association into trying to block the probe in court...
...Diego's new eleven-course program will probe the status of women in comparative cultures, in literature, in sex and in "self-actualization." Key subjects for discussion will include the Women's Lib movement and U.S. education's alleged failure to spur women to pursue intellectual careers. Conceived a year ago by 15 women students and teachers, San Diego's program breezed through the school's male-dominated academic senate last month. In fact, says one planner, "We received more resistance from women who didn't feel the program was needed." One hitch...