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...Nessen and the President might be well advised to open their Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look up the definition of NIM. They would, with red faces, discover that NIM is a verb, defined: "to take from, steal, filch...
...necessarily that they are KGB agents under orders to set up Americans in compromising positions (too many U.S. businessmen overestimate their importance by assuming that they are being bugged or followed). But some of the women are industrial spies who are primed to wheedle technical information or filch documents from briefcases left beside beds...
Seeking Victims. The recitation also provided parenthetical glimpses into the existence of Manson and his tribe. They often ate what they could filch from restaurant garbage cans. They stood guard duty against the attack by blacks that Manson had prophesied. Manson directed an orgy where "everybody made love to everybody else. We all shed our clothes and we were lying on the floor, and it was like it didn't make any difference who was next...
...lacks an efficient logistics system, as Czechoslovakia proved when Moscow had to press civilian trucks into service and when Soviet soldiers ran out of rations and water after a few days. Russian soldiers are trained, however, to live off the land; some did so in Prague by trying to filch apples from the garden at the American embassy...
...Duke d'Escargot (played with prinking precision by Victor Spinetti) persuades the Corsican Brothers to help him overthrow Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith). As the Corsicans approach Paris in disguise, their boat is attacked by the revolutionaries. In the fray the peasant brothers filch their counterparts' violin case containing their noble credentials. After that, le deluge...