Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuck to Spain for quite a while. Beautiful country. Developed a taste for fried octopus and red wine. The bar folded and for a month I taught skin diving to some paper-weight Americans, but my ear got infected, so I quit...
...wrapped in grey tin-foil." For hands he has "articulated steel pincers," which he habitually taps against his contact lenses, making a "dull ting." Dr. No's hobby is torture ("I am interested in pain"). Bond survives Dr. No's inventive obstacle course from electric shocks to octopus hugs, buries his tormentor alive under a small mountain of guano, and rescues the girl from a fate as a tasty snack for some giant land crabs...
...Music) D. In the trade, M.C.A. is known as "the octopus," but it keeps its tentacles well hidden. Its gross income is also a closely guarded secret, but estimates range as high as $100 million. Secrecy is an M.C.A. policy because the firm believes that publicity is for clients alone. To further their anonymity, M.C.A. agents dress as conservatively as bankers; the M.C.A. black suit is legend. And no one tries to dodge the public eye more than M.C.A.'s small, greying founder, board chairman and boss, Jules Caesar Stein...
Payoff. When new Treasury Minister Giuseppe Medici, 49, announced last year that the time had come to prune this octopus, Italians shrugged. But by last week the bearded Medici (who looks his name) could claim: "For the first time in Italy's modern history, the payrolls are going down instead of up." He has liquidated 50 bureaus (including one with 14,000 employees...
...slot machines, told where to lay bets or roll dice, and reported: "I have seen horse bets placed, and openly discussed, while a policeman sat drinking a cup of coffee almost within arm's reach of the bookie." Strickland's summation of Jefferson Parish: "A giant new octopus of organized gambling is flexing its tentacles for an even bigger grab. It is little short of being a gigantic casino...