Word: couriered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long since confessed and pleaded guilty. U.S. Attorney Gerald A. Gleeson limited himself to a dispassionate summation of the prisoner's career as a Soviet agent. In the light of the week's news, it was a flesh-creeping tale of how Gold had acted as courier between British Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs and a Soviet consulate clerk named Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev. Fuchs had been privy to the deepest U.S. atom secrets, and Gold had carried a treasure of horror in his soft hands...
...Gold recounted. "The man inside seemed startled, but he seemed reassured when I gave him the recognition signal: 'I bring regards from Helen,' and asked how his wife was." "Helen" had been Brothman's old contact (and was, in fact, Elizabeth Bentley, then a Communist courier and now another witness against Brothman...
Fairfield, a former CRIMSON managing editor, now writes a newspaper column in Washington. Braaten is now a State Department courier...
...Inverness Courier rallied to Nessie's defense. It denounced publication of the naval officer's account, added: "[A newspaper] must surely have a low opinion of its readers when it expects them to swallow such a story as this...
...scramble for them. Since harried news vendors favored only regular customers, a lively grey market soon started. One surprised traveler, alighting at the railroad station with a Sunday New York Times, was handed 50? for his day-old newspaper. Metropolitan sales of Pittsburgh's Negro weekly, the Courier, shot up from 23,000 to 41,000, while the demand for newsmagazines far outran the supply...