Word: frogging
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...unfinished business seemed just the point: that the French dope dealer so passionately pursued by the American cops could slip smoothly away through a massive stakeout and leave the country. The Frenchman was the source connection responsible for bringing in vast quantities of heroin from Marseille to New York. Frog One, Popeye Doyle called him, and the fact that he could get away nearly unruffled, meant simply that the law could never catch up with the main...
...keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder room. Throughout, a heavy Anglo-Frog accent blankets his speech, sometimes making him difficult to understand. Most of the other actors manage to sound vaguely foreign without making their speech an impediment, and Finney is to blame for his bizarre patois...
This is funny in a mechanical way, but it is more interesting as a deliberate contrast to the country-speech patterns still heard in black city lingo, and to the folklore half believed in and half smiled at. "Kill a frog or toad, dry him out completely in the sun . . . among his bones will be one that resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast...
...Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well within Syria; for battlefield support, Moscow has sent 100 Frog missiles, which have a range of about 45 miles...
...start of his eight-day leap-frog tour from Washington to Brussels to Moscow, Nixon was still suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein that he had first noticed in his left leg when he began his Middle East tour two weeks earlier. Though the pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs...