Word: octopus
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...made thousands of arrests, but they mostly pick up small fry. In the first six months of this year, Algerian war violence in Metropolitan France accounted for 374 dead and 617 wounded. Grumbled a D.S.T. agent: "It's like chopping at the tips of the tentacles of an octopus. We haven't been able to get at the beast himself...
...French social security office in Lille, had access to employment rolls and was thus able to supply the names of Moslem workers who could be forced to contribute to F.L.N. Also gathered in: half a ton of documents, including false identity cards and residence certificates. The F.L.N. octopus in France was still alive, but it was now missing a few tentacles...
Insectarian. In Philadelphia, a burglar broke into a market, took 72 cans of assorted fried ants, baby bees, fried butterflies, smoked octopus, fried worms, smoked frogs' legs, roast caterpillars...
...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...