Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
...difference between Welles and the advertising agency (Lord & Thomas, now Foote, Cone & Belding) arose when an adman asked Welles's publicity man how the actor should be handled. Welles heard about it and roared: "My God, didn't he even offer you a bribe?" When he met the adman in the studio, Welles enlarged his views. "Why, you incredible little heel," he said, "I understand you have been trying to find out how to run me. Just, please, go away and take all your little boys with you. Lockheed and I will work this out together." The adman...
...Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes the finale a freezing picture of a colonial court in action. When Timar hurries...
...changed into civilian clothes in one minute flat, and I last saw him going out of a window. They were going in all directions." The Americans hid in a wine cellar, Clark with a revolver in one hand and 15,000 francs in the other, "to shoot them or bribe them." After an hour the police went away. The Americans escaped...
...merchant ships, their cargoes and destinations (at least one ship so betrayed was sunk); they reported the construction of U.S. military bases and other defense activities in Latin America; they revealed defense secrets of the Latin American countries. In addition to spying, the Nazi agents plotted sabotage, attempted to bribe Latin American diplomats and to place agents...