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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows what he is going to get out of it." Adds another: "Heaven help you if you are unprepared. He has a very sharp temper, and he uses it very effectively." The questioning continued as Kennedy and two aides rode in a Secret Service black limousine (driven by an agent) on the 20-min. trip to the Dirksen Office Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

When Arizona Congressman Morris Udall was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, a Secret Service agent advised him not to visit a crowded fraternal hall in Wisconsin. A patron had told the agent that there was a man at the bar carrying a concealed pistol. Recalled Udall: "I went ahead, but I looked into every face and wondered, 'Is this going to be the one?' " Udall told this story not as an example of courage-or foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Somebody's Waiting for You | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Rosa begins to resent the constant need for discretion--the daily hardening to face surveillance or arrest. She knows the policeman who trails her, picks out the government's spy at a political meeting, stares down the agent who watches her as she finally flees the counry. Her discretion is so instinctive that she insulates herself from all human contact, passing through lovers with the self-possession noted approvingly in a school report written during her father's arrest...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Marching Away from Pretoria | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...April 24, at 2:37 p.m., inspiration attacked. While thumbing through a Robert Ludlum novel, it hit him--characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because, after all, they were his friends. He kept Edward Zlin, because, after all, Zlin was Liddy...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

Twenty per cent of Coop shoplifters are Harvard students, according to detailed Coop records. A security agent at the Coop said yesterday that 22 of last month's 90 arrests for shoplifting at the store were Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shoplifting Plagues Cambridge Stores | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

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