Word: informant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual meetings; the Soviet side included Gromyko, Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov. From time to time one of the U.S. team, usually McFarlane, entered the bubble, where briefing papers often disappeared under salami sandwiches and coffee cups, to inform the rest of the delegation what was happening. At the end, two veteran Washington antagonists even indulged in some genial clowning before journalists at the Hotel Intercontinental. As Perle waited for an elevator, his rival, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, slipped behind him and impishly poked two fingers above...
...heart attack." As Pietruszka sat impassively, separated from Piotrowski by two uniformed police officers, the former captain revealed that the victim was originally to have been Malkowski. Piotrowski claimed that he managed to dissuade his superior, saying, "Popieluszko is more dangerous politically." When Wolski said he would have to inform his superiors, the colonel allegedly replied, "Don't bother with superiors. The less they know, the smaller headache they will have." About a month before the crime, said Piotrowski, the colonel called him into his office and allegedly told him, "I don't think I have to add that this...
...Weaver answered, he recalls, "she would say, 'Well, it doesn't mean exactly this, but it means this, plus a little bit of that, and a hint of another thing.' When I realized that History contained 200,000 words, I decided to quit." Before he could inform Morante of his intention, she phoned, saying she had decided she could be of no help and would stop pestering him. Thus are great translations born...
DEAR Miss MANNERS: I am remarrying my ex-husband . . . How do I inform the proper relatives . . . and not appear to be asking for gifts...
...warm personal admiration-and, of course, a powerful common interest in resisting Hitler. The letters graphically show how that interest leads them into their thorny alliance with Joseph Stalin. In what must be one of the harshest summit conferences ever endured, Churchill goes to Moscow in 1942 to inform Stalin that the Western Allies cannot possibly open a second front in France that year. "We argued for about two hours," Churchill reports to Roosevelt, "during which he said many disagreeable things, especially about our being too much afraid of fighting the Germans, and if we tried it like the Russians...