Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agent said that he could not have arrested the Eight on Saturday even if he had wanted to "No arrest warrant has been issued to our knowledge. No one even knew the names of the alleged Boston Eight before today," he said...
...even know whether you're in violation of any law. Is this the draft law you've violated?" a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent said to the group when they asked to be arrested for last weekend's destruction of files at six Boston draft board offices. The FBI agent gave the group the address of their local FBI offices, and told them to turn themselves in there...
...nearly three years ago. A staff photographer for New York City's Spanish-language newspaper El Tiempo, he was asked if he would be interested in passing photographs of possible subversives along to the Bureau. "If we're talking about Commies, about Reds," he recalls telling an agent, "then fine. I been in the Army twice, and I say what's the difference in going after them over there or over here...
Suspect Virus. A link between cervical cancer and poor hygiene, plus lack of circumcision, would be easier to explain if an infectious agent could be implicated. Researchers at Baylor University have found a suspect. It is a virus technically known as Herpesvirus hominis, Type II, closely related to the herpes virus, Type I, which causes fever blisters around the mouth. Type II infects the genital regions of both sexes; it is found in smegma, the secretion under the foreskin, and is readily transmitted during sexual contact...
More important, the tests convinced him that the secret of the buntings' navigational skill lies in their body chemistry. It tells them not only when to travel but also whether to fly toward or away from the North Star. The most likely agent, he thinks, is a hormone or combination of hormones, secreted in response to varying amounts of daylight as the seasons change. If Emlen can identify these hormones and discover how they work, he may help explain how similar biological clocks work in other animals, including...