Word: agented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested that we apply for relief rations since we were not receiving pay. So I went to the one little village store and stood in line in the lantern-lighted back room, to state our case to the county relief agent. He, not a Catholic, though surprised was immediately interested and agreed that we were entitled to share in the ration issue. He made us a substantial allowance which was a lifesaver (though he did mark me down as drawing the allotment for myself "and family of nine...
...with the local's brass-knuckle tactics, 30% of the 658 Univis production workers asked for and got a National Labor Relations Board election. Result: the U.E. was rejected as bargaining agent. Even then, the local refused to call off the strike...
...juvenile delinquents of yesterday have become the gangsters of today, and they are much smarter and more dangerous, we are told, than the old gangs used to be. A disguised FBI agent (Mark Stevens) hangs around the hard streets of a large provincial city and gradually works his way into such a gang. His object: to identify those responsible for a chain of thefts and killings...
Edward Wilson, secret agent of His Majesty's Government in World War II, sat on a hotel balcony and sourly surveyed the West African seaport to which he had been assigned. He saw row upon row of hot and hideous tin roofs sloping away toward the sea, and a ringing clang came to his ears as a vulture perched heavily on top of the hotel. Down at the quayside, pickaninnies swarmed like little vultures around a newly landed seaman and triumphantly escorted him to the local brothel...
Stravinsky: Whatever my agent says...