Word: mole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toad, liberated, bounded off in the other direction. Light of heart, he took to the open road, encumbered by nothing heavier than a notebook and a pen. Pausing on a hilltop now and then, he wrote long letters to Ratty and Mole, and folded them into the shape of paper airplanes, and sent them sailing off on the breeze...
...Tiedge had worked for any length of time as a Soviet mole, he could have protected East German spies and endangered the cover of West German ones. A week after Tiedge's flight, Martin Winkler, a Buenos Aires-based East German diplomat who was probably a double agent, came in from the cold and sought asylum in West Germany...
...White conveniently manages to stumble on an international drug ring masterminded by the reigning Chinese Godfather, Joey Tai. White immediately jumps into action, tracking the drug king's every move with various illicit listening devices and tailing him via a Chinese rookie cop whom White has inserted as a mole in Tai's operation. What follows is a more than predictable series of cat-and-mouse games between White and Tai, climaxing in a surprisingly uneventful and rather boring shoot-'em-out at the New York City Port Authority...
TIME reporters interviewed scores of teenage Madonna look-alikes. Miami's Joseph McQuay sought them out at Florida concerts and found them obsessed with their idol. "From their brand of cigarettes to the mole on each upper lip, on the night of the concert they were Madonna," marvels McQuay. At a Manhattan disco frequented by the star, New York Correspondent Cathy Booth was mobbed by tulle-bedecked teenagers venting their opinions of Madonna...
...chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...