Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned in 1971 that the CIA'S contact in the White House was Butterfield. At the time, Prouty was looking for access to the White House to get help for a project involving U.S. prisoners of war in Viet Nam. His CIA connections referred him to Howard Hunt, the convicted Watergate burglar and a longtime CIA agent. "If you're a Rotarian," explains Prouty, "you go to a member of the Rotary Club." The old school tie worked. Prouty said that Hunt, who was working for a CIA front company, told him, "My contact is Butterfield...
...hunt for Morgan had received some help from an unexpected quarter: Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O. may have felt that the murder of Morgan could undermine Arafat's efforts to portray the Palestinians as responsible members of the world community...
...somewhat less than a million ($944,000 less, to be exact) for the privilege of rising at an even ungodlier 1:30 a.m. to be co-host of the CBS Morning News. Though totally innocent of television experience, Quinn had won, at age 32, a much publicized CBS talent hunt for a woman to challenge Walters' dominance of early-morning TV. As Quinn tells it in We're Going to Make You a Star (to be published next month by Simon & Schuster, $7.95), her decision to leave newspaper journalism was the biggest mistake of her life...
Laden with a library of booklets and magazines to aid me in making some sense out of the U.S. Open Championship Horse Trials. I made my way up the dusty trail to the Polo Grounds of the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton...
...auditors' report also revealed that Northrop runs a far-flung network of semiautonomous intelligence and sales agents who collect information, pull strings and distribute money in countries as diverse as Brazil and West Germany. Some of the agents operate entirely legitimately. But John R. Hunt, a former Northrop executive, was quoted in the Senate subcommittee hearings as telling the auditors: "The role of the agent is primarily that of influence peddler; that is, he knows whom to talk to and whose pockets to line in a particular country to get the job done...