Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Shaw's report that urea is an effective anti-decay agent [Jan. 13] comes as no surprise to those acquainted with the Roman poet Catullus [84-54 B.C.], who, in poems 37 and 39, lashes out at a Spaniard who aspires to be the lover of Catullus' girl and accuses him of keeping his teeth white by rubbing them with urine...
Boss of this efficient and expensive security apparatus is Walter Bradford, 57, a onetime U.S. Justice Department agent turned private eye. Hired by the Dominican embassy in Washington last fall, Bradford put 30 detectives to work when Ramfis arrived for school. Most of the agents are off-duty policemen or sheriff's deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters...
...British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer) insisted, in a tape recording made for a British commercial TV program, that his book was all true-he had merely ghosted it for a ghost...
...beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...
...mounts and the pleasure of hiring out to the highest bidders. After a couple of years of getting up at dawn to work horses and muck out stables, Bill found it nice to lie in bed late, then drive to the track to ride horses hand-picked by his agent...