Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...privileges as a so-called legal spy: U.S. officials concede that the Soviets had every right to detain him. But he was stretching the boundaries of conduct no further than the Soviets have tried themselves, no doubt successfully on many occasions, in West Germany. Indeed, part of the "cat-and-mouse game," as one Washington official calls the ongoing test of nerve between liaison members and their hosts, is to keep the surveillance teams under close countersurveillance and nab them for infractions. Nicholson was the first liaison member from either side to be fatally shot...
...have a cousin in Skinned Cat, Tennessee. Do you know where that...
...headquarters, Elstad was given a Miranda warning for the first time, then asked again about the crime, whereupon he signed a full confession. But an Oregon appeals court reversed his conviction, saying that the first, illegally obtained statement tainted the second and rendered it inadmissible in court. Because the "cat was sufficiently out of the bag," the state court concluded, Elstad confessed the second time thinking his fate was sealed. Justice O'Connor, writing for the majority, found this kind of "psychological" analysis unpersuasive. There was no reason to believe Elstad's second statement was involuntary, she said...
...performing what must be the most bizarre rooster imitation ever seen in the history of Western civilization, he convinces the Devil that the sun has come up, that time is up. All is found to be complete except for one item specifically mentioned in the contract--a black cat; but no cat, no soul, the contract is null and void, the Devil loses, and Nicholas is allowed to keep his soul. Such were the days before Federal E. press...
...beginning, we just played games, like snake, cool cat and fox," said 10-year-old Jessica from the Agassiz School. "We learned to wriggle like a snake, stretch like a cool cat, and jump like a fox. In the show, me and my friends do ballet barrels. We pretend we're barrels and puff up our cheeks and stuff like that...