Word: daggering
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Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
McCaffery’s final bucket—a dagger from the free throw line to cut the margin to 53-50—gave her 16 points on the night and 13 in the second half. The crowd, which had grown louder with every point the Crimson scored, screamed itself hoarse after the jumper. Her heroics set the stage for Cserny. Fighting for at least one more game in an already stellar career, she took over the final minutes of the second half...
...epics like, say, The Ipcress File. But Director Penn, whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...nearly 300 pages, Douthat offers us no solution, no recourse for reforming the system he finds so corrupt. The question hangs over the book like a dagger: Where do we go from here? Our current meritocracy doesn’t work perfectly, but it works well. After all, Harvard got Douthat where he wants to be—he’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic Monthly and the author of a potentially bestselling book. He can’t be too upset about...
...missed Dartmouth free throws later, and feeding off of a frenzied crowd, Shana Franklin threw the most important Harvard dagger of the game—a three-pointer at 4:42 from a Cserny assist that gave the Crimson its first lead since the first half...