Word: sis
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...SIS: The British D16 (equivalent to the CIA); the letters stand for Secret Intelligence Services. Also known as "The Old Firm," as referred to by British Ambassador Sir Geoffrey Jackson, when he said he had been relying on it to secure his release from the Tupamaros in Uruguay...
...Oates' own life. He was born in Depoy, Ky., a poverty pocket in the coal-mining district. When the family lost its general store during the Depression, his father went to work at odd jobs on the road while his mother took in boarders. His Great-Aunt Sis used to tell about the night she took in Jesse James and his partner just before they robbed a bank in Russelville. They left a $10 gold piece under a breakfast plate. As a kid in bib overalls, Warren pitched in and did his share; he picked strawberries...
Ortolans and Failure. For the next 2½ years it was girls, flasks and sis-boom-bah. But the public image concealed an all-night reader who forged through Flaubert, Rimbaud, Joyce, Proust, Eliot, Pound, Cummings, Stein, Hemingway. In the fall of 1926, with a wad in his wallet and a life of leisure in view, he changed his name to Nathanael West and sailed off to Paris to join the Lost Generation. It was going to be ortolans all the way. But that winter the family fortune showed signs of imminent collapse. Early in 1927, West found himself working...
...dozen beers and some wine, his buddies said. After dark, Adams and two companions sneaked into the Portland, Ore., zoo. He lowered himself into the grizzly bear's grotto, but the bear ignored him. He climbed out and tried the pit occupied by two lions, Caesar and Sis. Sis lunged at Adams, catching him by the feet. He died of a punctured jugular vein...
...next night, someone entered the zoo and killed Caesar and Sis apparently with a .30-06 hunting rifle. The zoo's director, Jack Marks, was appalled at Adams' death and shocked that anyone would have shot the lions in revenge. "The lions reacted as you or I would if someone invaded our home," he said. "An attack on a defenseless animal caged in a zoo is the product of a sick mind." Over $1,000 in spontaneous contributions has come in to the zoo, more than enough to replace the two lions, and another $1,000 has been...