Word: agent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...find it considerably interesting and even amusing," said Bussey Professor of Biology Carroll M. Williams. "Caffeine may be an insecticide, but it is not a very powerful agent...
...Boston model agent's praise of Harvard senior Elizabeth Evans is more a result of her All-American looks than her All-American tennis skills...
...Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires be attached to him as a safety measure. Declared Jones...
...Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing's, recognized the real author at first glance when he was shown the manuscript by her agent in 1982. "As soon as I read it, I burst into laughter," he says, "because it was a voice that is so well known...
Chalten called the latest order "part of a continuing process" in a legal struggle between the city and the company, which is under a Defense Department contract to develop an agent to neutralize nerve gas and other less toxic gases...