Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took the stand at the trial, complained in a letter about Komsomolskaya Pravda's distortions of his testimony. Writer Ginzburg's mother has threatened a libel suit against that newspaper for describing her son as a "paid agent" of a foreign organization-a charge never made at the trial...
...revenge. His lawyer made the same plea last week as he defended Escobedo against charges of being involved in the possession and sale of 59 Ibs. of heroin. This time it didn't work. Escobedo had made the mistake of selling the junk to a federal narcotics agent. Unless he wins another appeal, Escobedo, 28, faces from 20 to 80 years in prison...
Wearing the Green. The week did produce one real shock when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special...
...virtually an independent agent, able to defy the President and the Attorney General on such matters as his directive. His loyal supporters in the House and Senate Armed Services Committee are unshakeable. As with Hoover, to challenge the General, is to challenge many powerful and influential Congressmen. Such is the power of a Washington institution...
Little Josephine (Joe) Egg sags in a wheelchair, wets herself, whimpers a little, rarely opens her eyes, and has periodic fits. There are no jokes made about any of that. But the child's absence is her presence; an inert object, she is the playwright's catalytic agent for fusing, exploring and exploding the relationships and attitudes of the people around her. That is where the chemistry of laughter begins...