Word: agented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet off the southernmost tip of the continental U.S;, the President splashed in the Atlantic Ocean and smiled at the tropical sky. Using his head-up sidestroke, he wore his glasses, as usual. Once a wave dashed them off his face. To his happy surprise, a Secret Service agent later recovered them as they were washed ashore...
When he came home he worked his laundry route like a prospector working a gravel bar. He made good money-more than $100 a week. He got himself elected business agent of Laundry Driver's Local 566, made speeches in Seattle's down-at-the-heels labor temple at every opportunity. He took extension courses in economics, law, business administration, and English...
...internal workings of the Communist Party in an anonymous European country which M. Sartre does not call France. A young intellectual-idealist has been selected by Moscow to assassinate the national party leader (Boyer), who is believed to be preparing a compromise with the government. Before the agent can do this, his wife falls in love with the intended victim. He finally commits the murder just when he finds her in the arms of the leader...
...addition to Chief Randall's full force, HAA Director Bill Bingham has three men on the "scalping and grifting" detail. Cambridge police have alerted 65 men, and Boston forces will muster about 25 officers down by Soldiers Field. This means that there will be one agent of the law for every 432 spectators expected at the stadium, and one for every 165 Yalies...
Last week the Food & Drug Administration decided to take action.* It handed down a tentative order banning Agene as a bleaching agent for flour. If no exceptions are filed within ten days (so overwhelming is the evidence that none is expected), the order will become final. The bread industry will have until August 1949 to convert...