Word: abel
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...Friday they told me if I ever got clocked in the neck again. I wouldn't be abel to breathe," Hevern said. "My dedication to football dropped 99 per cent when I heard that...
Baldwin, who had left the game earlier to receive stitches for a cut above his eye, came back to score the game's only try on a "trick" play. Scott Abel picked the ball out of the scrum, threw it to Baldwin, and he lowered his head and smashed straight ahead for the necessary yardage...
...wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping in espionage cases. He also banned what intelligence called "surreptitious entry"-meaning burglary -and a companion tactic, the "bag job," in which agents enter a home or office and examine or copy documents, personal papers or notebooks. In the past, numerous spies-notably Rudolf Abel-have been exposed by bag jobs...
...month later, however, following pressure from the West, I was allowed to sign a power of attorney for no less a person than Wolfgang Vogel, the lawyer who arranged the trade of U-2 pilot Gary Powers for Soviet master spy Abel, and who had defended many notorious Nazi concentration camp butchers and the like. But even then the Secret Service lieutenant waited until the end of eight hours of interrogation, called the guard to take me away, and then at the last second rushed around the desk to have me sign lawyer Vogel's power of attorney...
...most notable successes was the Burgess-MacLean-Philby case, a classic example of successful infiltration aided by the refusal of the British Foreign Office's "old boys" to admit that one of their class could betray the country. Colonel Rudolf Abel spent nine years in the U.S. running a spy network that may have covered...