Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became Mrs. Miller's ally in her daily quarrels with Miller. He demanded gauloises bleues cigarettes, special tooth powder of pumice, writing paper of a special shape. He refused to be pacified by the Pacific, and he plugged his air less room so that no fresh air could leak in. Finally, he demanded drugs...
...this moment Dr. Lilly's mask started to leak, and he had to get out of the tank to keep from drowning. So he never learned what lay at the end of the blue-lighted tunnel...
After Dark. One night in 1944 a lawyer named Pietro Monni stopped in the lonely gorge to ask help in fixing the leak in his bicycle tire, and stayed for the night. Carolina's mother heard a shot. "I got up and saw my husband carrying out a big bundle-a sheet with a human foot hanging out." Three years later another bicyclist stopped, and did not live the night. This time Carolina's terrified mother summoned her courage and notified the police. At the trial Picchioni brazenly confessed to two more murders, and a dozen others were...
...stones based on a garbled leak from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, the Washington press corps propagated the apparently indestructible myth that Wilson said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." The official transcript of the hearing released later, showed that what Wilson really said was: "I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. But the impact of the first stories was never overcome by the fact, and probably never will be. To its credit, the Washington Post reported the story correctly from the start...
...Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite utter defeat in love and finance, he just laughs an ironic laugh, and in doing so achieves the maturity...