Word: doublecrossers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
...Traffic Light. One day last week, as Tito's chauffeur-driven limousine halted for a traffic light in Panama City, Jimènez leaped from a nearby car, crying, "I won't let you doublecross me!" Jimènez then pumped four bullets into Arias' neck, right shoulder and right side...
...leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible explanation: he closely resembles a richer client of the Scarperer -a French desperado who has commissioned this elaborate plan to get himself off the Suretes most-wanted list...
From Foreign Minister Galileo Solis on down, Panamanians accused the U.S. of bad faith. "Yankee doublecross," snarled a Communist student leader. "The U.S. has never in the history of our treaty relations completely fulfilled its obligations, and those that have been fulfilled have been done tardily and grudgingly," muttered an angry Panamanian official...
...stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...