Word: peare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...
Unlike Angleton, Harvey was almost too accessible. Known as the "Pear" be cause of his shape, Harvey was, says Mar tin, "the secret war made flesh." The bluff, boisterous Harvey began his career at the FBI, where his macho style offended J. Edgar Hoover. Transferring to the CIA, he took with him an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others...