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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, enough quantifiable information reached the computers to make Dallas the most consistently formidable club in football. Cowboy free-agent success stories are legendary. The current favorite: All-Pro Safety Cliff Harris from that renowned football hotbed Ouachita (Ark.) Baptist

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

What Elizabeth settled after marriage was her career as a writer. She began writing short stories and, in remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passions in a Darkened Mirror | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Sergeant Pepper's," Burns plays Mr. Kite, keeper of the band's instruments and mayor of the town, Irving Fein, Burn's agent, said yesterday. Lead Peter Frampton will serenade him in "The Benefit of Mr. Kite," and Burns himself will croon supreme in "Fixing a Hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burns Nixes Artists Series Invitation | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

While Reagan and Gianotti were moles, they were debriefed once a week by another agent dressed in street people's sloppy garb and then would dictate a long report to an FBI stenographer. After the arrests were made, they at first wanted to keep their cover, but now, after a month of enjoying the real world again, they are happy to be in from the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Infiltrating the Underground | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...Karenni agent in Mae Sariang, a small Thai border town, has operated there for nearly 30 years, almost with the rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMUGGLING: Following the Jade Trail | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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