Word: provocateur
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...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
Student apathy, chimera of the Student Council and the winter-leanness of H.A.A. cash customers melted under the charms of grid personalties Clarence "Chief" Boston, Wally Flynn, Emil Drvaric. Under the intense coaxings of pep provocateur Gerald S. Spear '48, disorganized expressions of "tan that Tiger" were welded into a harmonized version of "Crimson in Triumph Flashing...
Fast, fluent, implausible yarn of amorous and political intrigue inside Turkey, featuring an American girl with a past, a British intelligence agent, a Nazi provocateur, a Hungarian harlot, and the Lend-Lease Administration...
...Roosevelt undertook to handle this matter personally and secretly with Mr. Stalin. Mr. Roosevelt has not yet even secured Russian recognition of those whom we consider to be the true Government of Poland." (This invited another spanking from the Soviet official press, which had already called Dewey a provocateur for his Pulaski Day address-TIME...