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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Betty and Sonny Gosnell were just sitting down in their living room with an insurance agent to sign a policy for health coverage when the twilight turned pitch-black and a dreadful noise broke the evening stillness. "It sounded like a big, huge-engined train coming," recalled Mrs. Gosnell. "Then you heard things around you crumbling, snapping. It sounded like popcorn popping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whole Roofs Just Exploded | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...some years," Weinberger said of the Walkers, "and we will have to change some of our systems." The FBI, meanwhile, is on the trail of other suspects, including some employees of John's private- detective agencies and the ex-Navy man believed to be in California, the mysterious agent known only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Brother Makes Three | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...didn't mix much with the Radcliffe girls--they weren't around much," says W. Dudley Cotton Jr. '35 of Boston, a retired travel agent. "I had other girls, from Smith and Wellesley...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...Puerto Rican police gunned down two radical supporters of independence in 1978, the executions kicked off a scandal that helped bring down a Governor and resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police Agent Luis Reveron Martinez to the maximum 25 years. A witness has accused Reveron Martinez of killing one of the independentistas with a twelve- gauge shotgun as the victim knelt before him. Earlier three other policemen had each received 20-to 30-year prison sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Sending Police to Jail | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

According to an FBI affidavit filed last week, the agency videotaped encounters between an undercover agent and Gurpartap Singh Birk, 33, along with other Sikhs who allegedly wanted paramilitary training. Birk was also looking for a hit man to assassinate Gandhi and do away with Bhajan Lal, the affidavit states. Birk and three others were arrested in early May in New Orleans outside the hotel where Bhajan Lal was staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Foiling a Plot to Kill Gandhi | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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