Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incompetence of HSTO's operators is the stuff of legend. Students have reported all sorts of botches in service. One called HSTO twice during the summer to ensure that her bedroom's line would be in operation when she moved in. Of course, it wasn't. Another wanted to disconnect a line, and HSTO promptly disconnected his PAC code as well...
...heroes. The novel's true subject, to the lighthearted extent that it has one, is mythology itself. With the headline-hungry FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover promoting Floyd to No. 2 and then No. 1 on his new invention, the Most Wanted List, Charley's life becomes a legend before he is finished living...
...sure, Carlos had an evil career. The French charge him with 15 deaths locally; Carlos himself claims 83 victims worldwide. But the legend that credits him with the most notorious terror acts of the past two decades and links him to violent groups in France, Germany, Japan and especially the Middle East is diminished by bungled missions, unimpressively soft targets and years of dissipation from high living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that...
...also contributed to our coverage of the capture of Carlos, a chapter in a story that might be called the old face of terrorism. To separate fact from legend in this shadowy career, he detailed Carlos' extensive comings and goings in East Berlin during the 1970s and '80s. Explains Van Voorst: "It was a matter of checking documents and prosecution sources to triangulate important clues about Carlos' operations...
Books: The legend of Moe Berg, major leaguer...