Word: informing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special duty squads seized strong points at the approaches to Cairo; jeeploads of young officers roared into town, rapped at doors and windows, and rounded up eleven generals and a battalion of sleepy colonels, including Naguib's brother Aly, commander of the Cairo garrison. "Shall I personally inform General Aly's wife?" a young officer asked Naguib. "Do the same as you did with the others." Naguib ordered, and his brother was packed off to jail...
Will Tommy talk again? Will he inform the police about Paula? Will Smith be appointed dean? Paula breathlessly asks and laboriously answers these momentous questions...
...does Chambers feel about being an informer? "On that road of the informer, it is always night. I who have traveled it from end to end, and know its windings, switchbacks and sheer drops-I cannot say at what point, where or when, the ex-Communist must make his decision to take it. That depends on the individual man . . . I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary...
...inform you that after General Dodd's release, unharmed, there will be no more forcible screening...
...hiccuping and incomprehensible muttering. In the small hours of May 5, 1821, he cries: "Who retreats?", and then.: "At the head of the Army!" In the late afternoon, Napoleon sighs three times, his pupils flicker, his chin twitches up & down with "clockwork regularity"-and an equerry hurries off to inform the British governor that it is all over...