Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the beaming Khrushchev at his elbow, Tito had met the black-browed Pedro, whom Khrushchev introduced, and of course the prestigious Serov. Tito certainly remembered them. They had all been working for Stalin during the Spanish civil war 20 years before. That was when Tito was a Comintern agent traveling under the name of Walter, and Pedro and Serov were top Russian secret police operators. In that office, Serov, Pedro and Walter (and other Communist notables, including France's Andre Marty and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti) shared a common assignment: the liquidation of all left elements...
...NKVD career as the liquidator of minority nationalities, numbering some millions of people who saw the war as a chance to throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with Stalin in 1948, it was Erno Gero, Ivan Serov and a whole raft of equally ruthless, scheming and experienced Communist operators who organized the Cominform campaign of vilification and intrigue aimed at destroying...
...total package, with fringe benefits, to $2.40 more a day and miners' daily wages to $22.25. All told, it would add close to 60? per ton to the industry's cost of mining coal, and make another round of price increases inevitable. Appalachian Coals Inc., marketing agent for southern producers handling 25 million tons annually, started it off by hiking soft coal prices...
...hope this swooning contingent is not confined to yourself and your euphoric agent, Louis Shurr...
...Your Guts Will Ache." Despite his habitual wordiness, Wolfe could catch the feel of a place in a single line. To Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent and the editor of this volume, he described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...