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...handle the job, the terrorists pick Walter Grant, a brilliant, disgruntled mercenary who has been dismissed from the Special Air Service for torturing an Irish prisoner. Samson seems impregnable, but Grant knows otherwise. Captain Jonathon Stagg, Grant's sometime S.A.S. subordinate, sniffs something rotten in the North Sea wind but cannot pinpoint the terrorists' targetor persuade the mandarins of Whitehall that a catastrophe is gathering offshore. The battle of Samson (Stagg suggests that it be code-named Delilah) winds up as a duel of wits and weaponry between...
...records of Hancock's life to prepare this scholarly work. Hancock's official record at Harvard, stored in the basement of Houghton Library, shed some light on his character. Although he entered Harvard at the precocious age of 13, he was an undistinguished student. He complained about the "rotten" food and usually ate at local alehouses, where he picked up a taste for rum. Fowler includes in the text some of the drinking songs Hancock composed while at school...
...investigate the FBI'S internal ground rules for its sting operations, Director Webster expressed his belief that the FBI and Congress as a whole have compatible interests. Said he: "It's been my experience that public officials-say in Congress, for instance-want to get the rotten apples out. They're proud of what they are doing, and they are angered by anybody that is bringing discredit upon them by association...
Jimmy Connors does not labor under Kant's burden. Sometimes when the tennis gets intense, Connors grabs his crotch and shakes it for the crowd. He pelts the linesmen and judges with rotten language. He shoots his finger. The umpire usually responds with the flustered and ineffectual dismay of a curate who has discovered the servants copulating in his study...
...Love is a rotten substitute for respect, as any married person knows," he added...