Word: doublecrossers
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...Thursday morning 54-year-old Strom Thurmond was still on his feet. Wires from back home began to pour in on other Southerners, demanding that they help Strom Thurmond in his heroic effort. They realized quickly how Thurmond's doublecross had put them on the spot with their constituents. Urgently, angrily, they put in phone calls to home-state newspapers, explaining the harsh facts: Thurmond was not helping the cause; he was playing with dynamite...
...with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded by Elkins when he suspected a doublecross, Turner and Lambert spent three perilous months checking and double-checking the tale of the tapes. In the course of their investigation, they came to be called the Rover Boys by fellow newsmen, Fishface and Bug-Eyes by wary racketmen...
...year: Bulganin and Khrushchev. These two poison ivy twins of deceit and doublecross inaugurated their diabolical crusade at the Summit with their blandishments of sweetness and avowal for peace...
...Doublecross. At the beginning of last week. President Jacobo Arbenz,* who had persisted in typical Communist butchery in his last days in office (see below), had stepped down in favor of Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces. But Castillo Armas, convinced that Diaz was just a front for Arbenz, had said as much by going on with his war, notably by bombing Guatemala City's Matamoros Fort. Peurifoy agreed heartily with Castillo Armas' action. The ambassador had learned that under a cover of vocal antiCommunism, the doublecrossing Diaz was letting Arbenz' Red advisers...
...Lauwers, a Dutch agent of British Intelligence, sat in a German police headquarters near The Hague with his hand on the radio key that was his link with London. The Germans wanted to make the link theirs; Lauwers, recently arrested, had agreed to cooperate. Suspecting that Lauwers might doublecross them, the Germans were ready to jam the signal at the first misplaced dot or dash. But Lauwers had no intention of straying from his captors' text; his British instructions, he says, called for him to garble every 16th letter. By omitting the prearranged errors, he would be informing London...