Word: caper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department quickly ridiculed Meselson's theory as "the great bee caper" and stated that its scientists had already rejected such natural explanations. Spokesman Alan Romberg pointed out that one sample of a yellow raindrop weighed 300 mg, which, he said, "is certainly more than a bee could drop." The greatest flaw in Meselson's theory, Romberg continued, is that it fails to explain why yellow rain contains fungal poisons, or mycotoxins, which are present in doses large enough to kill a man, let alone a bee. The Government contends that mycotoxins have been found in the bodies...
Furthermore, American "security interests" become dangerously elastic when Cold War dominoes are involved. The U.S. plotted to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship to keep Cuba from becoming a Soviet foothold; the CIA's Surinam caper, in turn, was intended to guard against the projected dangers of a Soviet or Cuban base in that country. The next logical step must be an overthrow on the basis of suspect pro-Surinam sympathies. And when it happens, it probably won't even make the papers...
...unpublished visit to Harvard last night, Secretary of Defense Caper W. Weinberger '38 addressed the Kennedy school's visiting committee on the subject of arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...treatment and allowed slowly to die. If the press had not brought the case to light in 1972, the experiment would have continued. Even after the story broke, federal officials argued for months about whether the government was authorized to give health care to the experiment's survivors; finally, Caper W. Wainbanger '35 who was then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare) ordered medical treatment...
...opinion of Fleet Street that he should settle down and do his duty. The press pushed Diana as a girlfriend beyond the reality of the situation in the early stages. Whitaker fell in love with her." The merciless over-coverage of Diana (including, Whitaker boasts, an 80-m.p.h. car caper in which he drove alongside the car she was driving while a photographer snapped her picture) showed the English public a maiden so sweet and wistful that the Prince would have seemed a blackguard had he failed to propose...