Word: daggering
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...Defense Department, in fact, has had a checkered history with cloak-and-dagger work. The Pentagon set up intelligence units in the early 1980s that were kept secret from Congress. They became rogue outfits, using tax dollars for questionable operations, to pay for expensive hotel rooms, first-class airline tickets and, in one instance, a hot-air balloon and a Rolls-Royce...
After the drama of discovery in the first half, "Suspended in Language" turns into a something of a cloak-and-dagger thriller. When the Nazis occupied Denmark, Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since...
...Kerr said that junior midfielder Nicholas Tornaritis first goal, which put Harvard up 2-0, was the score that really drove the dagger into the heart of the Princeton team, and ended Tiger hopes to control the game...
...Khobar's busy streets. Then they took their terror to Oasis, a compound of luxury residences, swimming pools and palm groves. For some 20 hours they rampaged through the complex, sparing Muslim residents while stalking and executing any non-Muslims they could find with machine-gun fire and ritualistic dagger slashes across their necks. "I am al-Qaeda, I am Muslim and I am good," one of the terrorists told two of the compound's Indian employees, one Hindu, the other Christian. "You do not pray. You are bad." The day of mayhem left the reputation of the Saudi security...
...best-in-show Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World 48 years ago. Two of the best films couldn't win an award, since they were shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested by a priest in the '60s. The theme of child abuse could be treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more...