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Word: belaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact a member of a sophisticated kidnapping ring that abducts not for ransom but for hire--usually by politicians, businessmen or criminals who want to scare rivals into submission. Aguilar was highly trained for the ring's SWAT-style ops--to fly single-engine planes, for instance, and belay from a helicopter. "We weren't like the sloppy ransom kidnappers," he says. "We had an honor code...that dictated that you don't commit violence if you don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triggerman's Blues | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Some readers have zero tolerance for the genre of seagoing adventures. To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written in more accessible prose. Too bad for them, because they have therefore missed the high-sailing novels of Patrick O'Brian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing Off to the Past | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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