Word: biff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STORY THUS FAR: In the last episode, Biff Bundle, University Police undercoverman, found himself hot on the trall of a small, nervous foreigner, whom Biff had reason to believe was involved in the hideous murder which had just been discovered in a chemistry lab in Mallinckrodt. At headquarters, Bundle received a phone call from the stranger, who told Biff to meet him at once, muttering cryptically, "ze bronts rhinotseross." When Bundle's immediate notion that the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house proved incorrect, he became convinced that the phrase was an undergraduate nickname for some favored professor. Just...
Bundie jumped behind a corner of the building and cautiously watched the fellow walk ponderously past the University Mail Office. Biff stayed carefully hidden until the fat man had disappeared behind Thayer North. Then he began tailing the stranger, dashing from one hiding place to the next, always just staying out of sight...
...Bronze Rhinoceros, intoned Biff, leaning closer, "great coffee." He scrutinized her intently. She started back at him. "Bronze Rhinoceros." he repeated, bending over...
...Biff thought, "I guess it's not a coffeehouse...
...Biff chuckled quietly at the nick-name, but stopped abruptly. Like some great bear trap, his mind had snapped into action. "Of course! the Bronze Rhinoceros is a nickname!" Just at that moment Bundle looked up and saw an immense dark--skinned man lumber down the University Hall steps. All at once the jig-saw pieces fit together, and Bundie knew he was right. He dashed behind the building and cautiously peered around the corner...