Word: parcelled
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...Israeli embassy in London's fashionable Kensington district had been warned by intelligence agents to expect some sort of terrorist attack, and particularly to be on the lookout for parcel bombs sent through the mail. But in the rush to distribute incoming mail after the three-day Yom Kippur weekend, no one paid any particular attention to four slim letters that had been airmailed from Amsterdam and hand-addressed to individual embassy staffers. Three of the letters were never opened. But Agricultural Counselor Ami Shachori, 44, nonchalantly ripped open the fourth without even interrupting the conversation he was having...
...Members of Congress or their aides can be questioned at trials or by grand juries on any matters other than those "that are part and parcel of the legislative process." Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, backed by the Senate, had argued that the constitutional immunity of legislators extended even to the actions of an aide in arranging for publication of Pentagon papers that Gravel had earlier made a matter of legislative record. He lost...
...Amish believe that the schools are part and parcel of an inhuman competitive technological society, of which they will have no part...
...Britain. Said Ulster's best-known Protestant preacher: "If we are realists, we will admit that it is easier to change half a million people than it is to change a million people. And there are a million people in Northern Ireland who want to remain part and parcel of the United Kingdom...
Bingham delivered exposed films to the Soviets by leaving them at one of seven "dead drops" in or near the town of Guildford, including a tree, a hollow under a bridge, and a car door in a rural trash heap. In turn, the Soviets left a "parcel"-a hollow sphere made of putty and shaped like a stone, containing a fresh supply of film, instructions and sometimes money...