Word: person
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Once the worm was unleashed, Morris made only"minimal efforts" to stop its spread and did notinform any person in a position of responsibilityabout the existence of the program, the commissionreported...
Four weeks ago, at exactly the two thirds point of the school year, my six-person roomming group engaged in its biannual migration. As part of some "tacit" agreement I supposedly made in September, I was cruelly expropriated from my secluded single down the hall and relocated into a double directly off the common room...
Banta regularly reports on the rigors of life behind the Iron Curtain, and much of his appreciation for such tribulations comes from his personal experience. Trains with no heat. Telephones often on the blink. Sources too scared of eavesdroppers to talk except in person -- and in private. Even getting into some countries can be a trial. After presenting his perfectly legal visa to the passport officer on entering Rumania, Banta was taken to the departure lounge for the next flight out. But the kindly officer did give Banta enough Rumanian lei to call the U.S. embassy to protest...
...there was another warning, this one from the FAA. The reason: four days earlier, the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had received an anonymous phone call from a person with a Middle Eastern accent. The tipster stated that a man named Abdullah planned to pass a device to a female Finnish passenger, who would unwittingly transport it to Frankfurt, then onto a U.S.-bound craft. U.S. and Finnish authorities dismissed the message because the caller was a known hoaxer...
...Chinese (or Jewish or Presbyterian) mother broods when an adult offspring says, "I'm my own person!" Her response is, "How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?" The author writes with both inside and outside knowing, and her novel rings clearly, like a fine porcelain bowl...