Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead of rewarding Bates and his colleagues for being right, Gray banished one agent to St. Louis and retired another. Avoiding a similar fate, Bates asked to be transferred back to San Francisco...
...also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death by asphyxiation. Said Colby: "Agents didn't want to face that kind of fate...
...with the Orioles struggling against fate and Catfish Hunter, and the Red Sox coming home with a much-needed two-day rest, it appears that Hurricane Eloise will have the last laugh in the A.L. East race...
...ends Ian Fleming's delightful spy novel, From Russia with Love, with James Bond's fate left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison. "It comes from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish," an eminent neurologist tells Bond's boss. "It's terrible stuff and very quick...
...decade, the next step would be to dig into the rest of the mineral-rich hill on which the city stands. As yet, the company, which is itself facing financial problems and has actually been losing money on its Butte operations, has not decided the fate of the hill. Says Anaconda's Montana mining chief Leonard Powell: "We don't know yet if we'll want it. There are too many variables...