Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoidance of federal money and control is small consolation to people who do not share in the general prosperity. Just upriver from the Freeport Sulphur Co., amid signs advertising bail bondsmen and flood insurance, are the offices of white Attorney Joseph Defley, a former FBI agent who 14 years ago married the sheriff of Plaquemines' daughter and moved down from Chicago. One of his clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit...
...Legionnaires' disease. But if this dangerous form of pneumonia, which is now suspected of afflicting up to 45,000 people a year in the U.S. alone and requires treatment with the antibiotic erythromycin, is ever to be fully understood, researchers must know where the as yet unnamed infecting agent usually lives and how it is transmitted to humans...
When he was in his early 40s, a mere stripling, Nicholas Deak parachuted into the Burmese jungles and the Balkans on many spooky missions as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Now, in his early 70s, Deak has slowed down only a bit. He runs-not jogs, runs-three to five miles every morning on his own track at his estate in suburban New York. Then he is chauffeured to the global headquarters of Deak & Co., in the Deak-Perera Building near Wall Street, where he directs the largest foreign exchange business...
...young World War II general faced with a problem of racial discrimination, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949; of pneumonia; on Aug. 9, in Stuart, Fla. After his first novel, Confusion, was published, Cozzens dropped out of Harvard, wrote one more novel, then married a New York literary agent and settled into a life of seclusion and unremitting hard work. In the 13 books that followed he fashioned a stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously researched professional backdrops. The Last Adam (1933) was about a doctor; Men and Brethren (1936) was about...
...meat, men who preach heresy to his parishioners. At the same time he uses his powers of flattery and persuasion to seduce most of the nearby females, including a local noblewoman, the chatelaine, and his 14-year-old cousin. When the Inquisition comes to town, he turns double agent, denouncing his fellow heretics to the investigating bishop...