Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in 1905 in Kishinev in the Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
...have no known gods, but they fear and venerate the jaguar and live in a world infested with evil spirits. Some of these can be bested in rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...
...intensive and secret discussion. The news of Mao's stepping down as chairman of the People's Republic of China was confided by the Foreign Ministry to trusted outside diplomats (not invited: the British, the Dutch, the Yugoslavs) after Nationalist China-which says it has an agent inside the party councils-first spread the word. A week passed before China's 650 million-people were told the news...
Sign Here. For months, under the supervision of the Ministers of Commerce and the Interior, the police dug for evidence. One big break came when a secret service agent managed to pry out of a Swiss bank the name of an official who regularly commutes to Spain to see his clients. Early this month the official was arrested while on one of his trips, and the police soon had enough information to swoop down upon the office of a notary public in Barcelona. There they found a list of 1,363 names, each accompanied by a secret account number...
Miyoshi's live-wire agent booked her all over the country-in nightclubs, auditoriums, small-town theaters. Then she got on Tennessee Ernie Ford's TV show and Arthur Godfrey's morning show. On the Godfrey show, Miyoshi was noticed by Warner's casting director, who brought her to Josh Logan, who hired her for the role of Katsumi in Sayonara...