Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott, 17, as he looted a drugstore. Kenneth Lee China, 22, was merely standing in front of his house when a bullet stuck him in the chest, wounding him fatally. While some of these killings of blacks are already under investigation by the FBI in a sweeping Justice Department probe, top Miami police officers admitted that some members of the department had reacted unprofessionally to the widespread looting. Several policemen walked into a shopping center parking lot at around 11:30 p.m. and systematically smashed the windshields of 14 unoccupied cars with billy clubs, rifle butts and pieces of pipe...
...some hopes for a break in the crisis were raised at week's end when three prominent Socialist party leaders-Sweden's Olof Palme, Spain's Felipe Gonzalez and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky-met in Vienna and discussed the possibility of flying together to Tehran to probe the chances for the hostages' liberation...
...Jeddah (she was shot, he beheaded) for their all-too-public transgressions after they were caught trying to flee Saudi Arabia. But when Thomas found it difficult to pin down facts about the princess, he decided to use her in his film as "a symbol, an excuse to probe into the private center of the Arab world...
Next, as soon as the sun goes down, armored personnel carriers equipped with high-intensity searchlights rumble out of the mud-walled Soviet tank depot half a mile south of Chaghasaray. The APCs probe the mountains with their lights and shoot off silver-and orange-colored flares at areas of suspicious movements. On the night I stayed awake to watch, the light show came on every ten to 15 minutes. According to mujahidin, the most intense fighting is in the Pich valley, where Soviet tanks have been trying to secure the main road. As I listened for more than...
Alice Childress' Wedding Band adds two twists to the usual plot of interracial sex stories. First, the male character is white; second, he and the female character are in love. But rather than use these unusual plot contrivances to probe new ideas from a different perspective, Childress presents a familiar cast of Southern caricatures--racists and saints--and often falls prey to didactic sermonizing that spoils this noble work about racial prejudice...