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...said cynical things people supposed you cleverer than if you said positive, obvious things." When someone asks him what his period is, he spits back, "Somewhere between 1213 and 1215." Happy people puzzle this remote pair. Giles' sister and her schoolmaster husband, an outgoing couple who talk student slang to each other, seem coarse and comic to them. So does Louise, at least to Tibba...
...also a major propaganda coup for the I.R.A. The escape came after a wave of arrests and convictions during the past year (thanks to the testimony of several "supergrasses," or onetime terrorists turned informers) that has severely shaken the organization. The slang term to grass means to tip off policemen. Evidence from just one supergrass, Christopher Black, has led to 35 convictions, including that of Kevin Artt. Largely because of the informers, political murders in Northern Ireland have fallen dramatically, from 97 in 1982 to 47 so far this year. That sort of success led Ulster authorities to expect some...
...word it probably refers to the 747, now practically at a right angle to the Su-15. Although target had a tragic meaning in the skies over Sakhalin, it is airman slang for radar blip...
...like an "ignoramus" who sheds "crocodile tears." Protesters who picketed the Long Island estate of the Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations behaved like "hooligans." All this international outrage amounts to a "hullabaloo." It was as if a Soviet translator had stumbled onto a dusty dictionary of Anglo-American slang, circa...
...procedure are more or less the same, whether at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts or at the early-warning centers of the Soviet air force's Far East command. When an unidentified aircraft- a "bogey" in military slang-appears on the radar screen, fighters are scrambled to intercept and obtain a visual would Even if potentially hostile, an intruder would be let alone as long area a remained outside national airspace, which is the area lying above a country's landmass and coastal waters. (It can extend from three to 200 miles out from the coast, depending...