Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Second World war made "walls with ears" a national cliche, it also cut the supply of recording disks, and the cloak-and-dagger atmosphere left the Clinic for good. The observation roof was wall-papered and the audio-lamp disappeared. Only the dining-room recorder, now covered with dust remains...
...rare, brief journeys from his homeland, in 1945, to meet President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, he sailed to Great Bitter Lake in imperial style on the deck of the U.S. destroyer Murphy, with his own tents, two of his sons, the royal astrologer, baaing sheep and dagger-bearing attendants...
Instead, he answered some questions, refused others, and left the impression that he was a junior cloak and dagger man, fighting the committee because of some juvenile idea that he would be acclaimed a liberal here. In doing so, he ignored certain responsibilities to the Law School and the University, showing himself as one who could not be trusted. With the avowed policy of the American Bar Association, we can sea no reason why the Law Review should jeopardize its members' professional possibilities for the sake of an individual who has erred so greatly in his judgment. Neither...
...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
...stationed, he began his life work by stabbing a schoolmate with the sharp point of a compass. Released from prison at 15, he joined the army, and was working in a road gang when an officer kicked him for not saluting. El Sapo killed the man with a dagger and was sentenced to be shot, but got a reduced sentence and was later pardoned. After that, he committed murder as casually as lesser malefactors pick pockets...