Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suicide come to mind--problems we can empathize with although they don't necessarily touch our lives directly. The case of bigotry, however, stirs emotions by touching a deeper nerve that is all too familiar to many people. In MASTER HAROLD..and the boys Athol Fugard forces us to probe not only the problem, but also our own psyches...
...edges closer to danger when he begins to probe Hal's insecurities as an older, but equal friend might. But he penetrates the boy's shallow self-esteem too easily, and the frightened Hat runs for shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time...
...will be forced to loosen his political hold on the country is another matter. Elected Prime Minister in 1972, he resigned two years later when a Japanese magazine reported that he had set up a web of fake firms to hide shady financial dealings. Two years later, an official probe led to the Lockheed bribery charges and Tanaka's subsequent arrest. Throughout his travails, however, Tanaka always retained his seat in the Diet, which he first won in 1947. More important, he still controls the largest faction within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party; of the 422 L.D.P...
...York-area Mafiosi had expected Masselli to testify in Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe of Donovan's activities as an executive of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nat worked for his father William, 56, a convicted hijacker who owned an excavating firm that had subcontracts with Donovan's firm. Testimony in the Bronx County trial showed that Salvatore Odierno, 68, and Phil Buono, 68, Mafia soldiers, had met Nat Masselli last August to talk him out of cooperating with Silverman...
...Consumer Products subsidiary, the manufacturer of Tylenol, seemed to do everything right. Instead of becoming defensive about the deaths, the company opened its doors and its checkbook. Chairman Burke appeared on Donahue and 60 Minutes. The company fully dedicated itself to the investigation, says Tyrone Fahner, who headed the probe during his term as Illinois attorney general. Said he: "Anything we wanted from them, we got. The president of the company called and asked if I thought a reward might help. Before I could raise the possibility of $20,000, he was asking if $100,000 would be enough...