Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge, who promptly ushered the upstart back to the end of line. The frustrated defector excitedly explained that he had an important matter to discuss with the Ambassador or the CIA. The embassy's consul, hearing the ruckus, came out to investigate. The man, now desperate, flashed his Soviet passport. No reaction. Next, he took out his military identification card. A glimmer of comprehension. The consul copied the Cyrillic letters and sent them upstairs to the CIA station chief. Minutes passed. No response. The distraught man exclaimed that he would be shot if they did not do something quickly. Then...
...fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume, however, seems unlikely to grasp the concepts of weary connivance that nourish the standard thriller...
...host of competitors of the original Fuzzbuster have since roared onto the market. Some of the best-selling detectors are made by Cincinnati Microwave, whose latest PASSPORT edition is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and sells for $295. Thanks to his attentive little black boxes, Cincinnati Microwave Chairman and Co-Founder James Jaeger, 38, is a multimillionaire who owns a fleet of Ferraris and says that, of course, he never gets speeding tickets...
...albeit very briefly, Murrow's hard drinking, bursts of temper and infidelities, especially his open wartime love affair with Pamela Churchill, the British Prime Minister's daughter-in-law--matters the docudrama deliberately overlooked. Using declassified FBI files, Sperber demonstrates abuses by that agency, the State Department and its Passport Bureau to harass Murrow and suggests their files were leaked to Alcoa, which then withdrew sponsorship of Murrow's trademark documentary series See It Now. Although generally a plodding stylist, Sperber delivers absorbing passages on Murrow's major confrontations--in Britain, with McCarthy, and finally with then CBS Chairman William...
...passport requirement was announced on May 22 in a tersely worded note delivered to all embassies in East Berlin. The U.S., British and French missions rejected the message and directed their diplomats to show only identity cards when they drove through Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing between East and West Berlin most used by foreigners. East German guards allowed them to pass, but diplomats from other countries, including West Germany, were turned back and advised to return with their passports...