Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over, the 73-year-old former New York City lawyer and self-made millionaire seemed drained -- and his inquisitors disturbed. They were appalled mostly by how little the CIA chief professed to know. The head of an intelligence network that has snoops planted in hostile governments around the globe and has eavesdropped on Kremlin officials as they talked on their limousine telephones claimed to be largely uninformed about the most audacious foreign policy venture of his own Government...
...violence planned by the outlawed African National Congress. But if South African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have found that the lust for freedom dies hard...
...great many mysteries feature journalists, largely because a great many mystery writers got their literary start at newspapers. Few have chronicled the freewheeling snoop as extensively, or as comically, as Gregory Mcdonald, Edgar winner and former arts and humanities editor of the Boston Globe, in his series about the impertinent Fletch, a man who breaks all the conventions. Fletch is young and handsome, not paunchy and timeworn; he is ethically shady and quick to grab a buck, not a tattered idealist clinging to principle; he is snippy not only to those in authority but also to working people...
...Boston Globe went so far as to claim that Harvard "startled the hockey community" by sweeping UMD. Michigan State has lost twice and been tied by Maine, but the Spartans are top-ranked nationally because their WCHA schedule is so much tougher than Harvard's ECAC stroll...
Nassirnia told The Globe that "From the beginning Hussey sounded extremely angry. I was afraid he would lose control. I truly thought he would kill me. I have never been so scared in my life...