Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demolition experts continued to probe the 11th Street wreckage for more explosives-and perhaps more bodies-bombs exploded at the Manhattan headquarters of Mobil Oil, IBM and General Telephone and Electronics. An organization that styled itself "Revolutionary Force 9" claimed responsibility. No one was hurt in the early-morning blasts, which were strikingly similar to three blasts in several New York office buildings last Nov. 11, but during the following two days news of the explosions triggered an outbreak of more than 600 phony bomb scares in a jittery New York. Three Molotov cocktails exploded in a Manhattan high school...
...Plummer and Carson can only theorize about their strange Martian snow. But they hope that its presence may be confirmed in 1975 when NASA's Project Viking space probe is scheduled to make the first unmanned landing on the red planet, analyze its surroundings and radio its findings back to earth...
...Goldstein realizes that his task now reaches far beyond the perimeters of legal scholarship. He wants to reunite teachers and students into the kind of cohesive academic community that once helped make Yale the nation's most creative law school. At the same time, he has promised to probe for innovative answers to the mounting problems of legal education...
...that sounds like Sam Sheppard and F. Lee Bailey in Easy Rider, it is un ashamedly supposed to. A modestly budgeted film without a name star, The Lawyer has magnificent pretensions. It seeks to analyze the dilemma of freedom of the press v. a defendant's pretrial rights, probe the personality of an ambitious young trial lawyer and lay bare the smug, self-righteous rural soul (which suffers from overexposure anyway). The result is a demolition derby that threatens to wreck everyone in sight...
...Kahn's book promises to be different. The subtitle Why Students Rebel suggests a probe into the underlying causes of student unrest. A book which faces this problem using the events at Columbia as evidence might well become an important commentary on campus violence. Gene McCarthy, in the book's introduction, clearly believes that Kahn has achieved his goal...