Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday night, Duckett's needling eventually had its effect. Weaving his way up court, Ferry broke free for an instant, faked right and nailed Donald Fleming in the left corner for an easy jumper. Seconds later, Standley launched a perfect inbounds bomb toward Monroe Trout, who cleanly sank...
...maintaining one of the world's most effective secret police systems. The Soviet agents soon had to use their skills. No sooner had they settled into the Hilton than they routinely set about checking out the rooms for electronic listening bugs. They found instead a huge time bomb, planted by persons unknown, which they managed to defuse just before zero hour. After some understandably excited exchanges with their Iranian hosts, the newcomers packed up their gear and departed for presumably safer quarters...
...Egypt may thwart good intentions and a tough executive. The economy will be badly hit because receipts from oil exports, which provided $2.5 billion in foreign currency last year, are tumbling along with the fall-off in world crude prices. Egypt is also beset by a ticking demographic time bomb...
...tragicomic drama and bonded to each other in something resembling a love-hate relationship. Sir (Paul Rogers), who is called only that, is the last of a dying breed of British actor-managers who tour the provinces paying flawed but fervent fealty to Shakespeare. The time is 1942 in bomb-blasted England, and the war has depleted Sir's resources to an extremely tatty troupe: "I'm reduced to old men, cripples and Nancy-boys. Herr Hitler has made it very difficult for Shakespearean companies...
...those seeking to devour the people. A snake in the grass, then? No, because a snake would be immediately recognizable as an enemy. Nor could the tax package be described as a fox in a henhouse, a dog in the manger, a bull in a china shop, or a bomb in a bull (though it has been called abominable). A wolf in sheep's clothing comes close. A horse in sheep's clothing is closer, if uncomfortable for the horse...