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...problem for the designers of Alertronic were intruders smaller than burglars, i.e., pets and mice. To keep it from giving alarm whenever a mouse scampers into its sound field, the machine has to be set below its maximum sensitivity. It lets mice frisk undetected, but their delicate ears can hear its high-pitched sound, and the uproar frightens them so much that they die of a heart attack...
That merely is to frisk the Eisenhowers...
...offer "The stop, hit and dump," "the blabberin' throw," "the 50-league hot foot," "the fog-rolling contest," "the frisk us thorough," "the Tito-totter balance" "the atom hoard jump," and "the high-hurdle delays...
...office, an' comes down. He goes f'r me, puts me on th' bricks, an' hands me two grand an' tells me t' breeze th' burg; which I does. Well, when I hits Frisco th' bulls know me. They frisk me an' pipes the case dough. I tries t' tell 'em it's square jack, but they don't fall, an' th' nex' thing I knows I'm doing a ten-spot in college...
...strayed off the fairways of the English language to rummage in the rough (A Dictionary of Slang, Shakespeare's Bawdy), shows in his massive new Dictionary of the Underworld that even in 18th Century London a beak was a magistrate, a college was a prison, and to frisk was to search. But U.S. criminals, no mere copycats, have made their own additions to the lingo, among them (see above): torpedo (to kill), pipe (to see), case dough (trial money) and square jack (honest money...