Word: informant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only Means." Massu's deep voice boomed across the crowded square, reading a message he had just wired to President Coty and to General de Gaulle:* "We inform you that we have set up a Committee of Public Safety under the presidency of General Massu, owing to the seriousness of the situation and the need to maintain order and avoid bloodshed. The committee awaits with vigilance the formation of a Government of Public Safety -the only means of keeping Algeria an integral part of French territory...
...Please inform that lady who found my letters to her husband that if she turns them over to my husband it won't do her any good because I already have confessed everything, and he has forgiven...
Since the censors had the phone numbers and cable addresses of all major U.S. newspapers, magazines and wire services, Szulc updated his files by sending what appeared to be business messages to 229 West 43rd St.-the Times's street address-using a prearranged code ("Regret inform you 24 boilers out of order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after...
...University hopes that students living out will find accomodations in supervised rooming houses or in private dwellings. Although there would be no parietal rules as such, the Dean's Office would inform proprietors of what it considers reasonable behavior and ask them to report extraordinary occurences...
Bent Twigs. The racket required only money and patience. A Chinese in the U.S. would revisit the home country, say for a year, perhaps longer. Upon his return he would inform immigration officials that his wife, still in China, had borne him a child, maybe two or three. Since the self-styled father could claim that he was a U.S. citizen, his child, accordingly, was a citizen and was so registered...