Word: snares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once I touch him he won't move. I slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick Worthington, 49, a former Royal Marine who has been a water...
...enthusiasm about climbing into bed with the secret police, agents threatened, they would turn over to the West German press photos of him wearing only his socks. West German counterintelligence foiled the plot by extracting a promise from the newspapers not to publish the photos. The KGB tried to snare U.S. Assistant Military Attaché James Holbrook in a similar "honey trap" of seductive female agents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Rovno in 1981. He reported the misadventure to U.S. officials and was sent home...
Ever since The Little Drummer Boy laid down his perfectly honed snare patterns, rock and roll has been a cherished part of the holiday season Each successive yuletide finds a fresh crop of both new and established artists anxiously pressing the vinyl to make their versions of Christmas pop the best...
...Angeles and Ventura, Calif. Predicted Assistant FBI Director Roger Young after De Lorean's arrest: "This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as cooperation is concerned." Praising President Reagan's proposal two weeks ago to set up joint federal task forces throughout the nation to snare big drug suppliers, Young declared: "We've got the Commander in Chief saying, 'Go get 'em, guys.' No one can back down from cooperating...
...snare was set for springing. Last week Hetrick telephoned Benedict to say he would take Pan Am's Flight 442 on Monday from Miami to Los Angeles. He would be bringing the cocaine. Benedict met Hetrick at the airport and drove him to the nearby Sheraton Plaza Hotel. On the way, Hetrick admitted he had brought only 25 of the expected 100 kilos. He would sell this share for $1.8 million. If everything went well, the other 75 kilos would soon follow. Hetrick was being cautious?but not cautious enough...