Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trick Mirror. From gangsters, the FBI graduated to bigger fish. Within 24 hours after 1125 p.m. on Dec 7, 1941, the FBI had put 1,771 enemy aliens behind bars. The FBI scored spectacular wartime coups: arresting ten German saboteurs who landed from submarines along the Atlantic coastline; trapping a 33-man spy ring in Manhattan with the help of movie cameras and a trick mirror. All through the war, FBI agents helped man a radio station which Nazi agents had set up on Long Island, and saw to it that Berlin received just the transmissions the U.S. wanted...
...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
...tony resort, but not too tony for nouveaux riÇhes. Like her royal husband, she is a topnotch golfer, plays the Onex course under 80, has twice held the Club de Genève women's championship. Though she is merely the daughter of a newly rich fish merchant, the King has bestowed on her the title Princess de Rethy...
...them filed a 48,000-word report to O'Neil in New York, who thereupon sat down to write his story. When he had finished it, Researcher Anne Lopatin took over the job of verifying a multitude of facts such as the statement that "Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester"-a statistic which our Boston Bureau proved to its personal astonishment and chagrin...
...tomorrow night we will present one of the greatest names in music-Ezio Pinza Bass." On that occasion she made the show complete by putting on her spectacles, reading her notes and screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect me to be funny, so I'm funny...