Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinarily straightforward way, he phoned the home of CIA Director Richard Helms and talked to his then-wife Julia. Igor offered to become a double agent, or, in Le Carré's famous term, a "mole," who would burrow deeply into the Soviet espionage network and pass on secrets to the U.S. Julia turned Igor over to her husband, who in turn passed him on to U.S. counterintelligence operatives...
...hour day at the office, a bright, up-and-coming young businessman went to a cocktail party given by his boss. A little nervous, he tossed back so many stiff highballs that he lost count. Feeling no pain, he proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home. Was he fired for having disgraced himself so? No. This was Tokyo, not New York. When the young man returned to work the next day, not a word was spoken about the previous evening. In Japanese fashion, his behavior was not held...
...name and style, the derby's races are closely patterned after the more familiar slalom and downhill races in alpine skiing. In the slalom events, the contestants must weave down the river, passing through a series of metal gates. Novices have to pass through 15 gates; the hardy competitors who try the toughest slalom must find a way of getting through 20, which are often devilishly placed in the most treacherous spots in the Hudson. Anyone hitting a gate suffers penalty points; anyone missing one then and there loses just about any chance of winning. The longest slalom race...
...meantime, he presses ahead on what is surely the toughest chore of his career: using the Federal Reserve to slow the economy gradually without dipping it into recession. As Oklahoma-born Miller, who is part Indian, puts it, "We want to go through this narrow pass to the wide open space on the other side without an arrow touching...
Schmautz took a pass from Gregg Sheppard on the left side, turned quickly on a diving Larry Robinson, then banged the 25-footer past Dryden to set off a joyous celebration...