Word: snooper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stirring Snooper. But any probe that sails a respectable distance into space will repay the sweat and strain. If it soars just 2,500 miles above earth, it will top all artificial satellites, and its instruments will be snooping in regions unknown to man. A probe that got within 50,000 miles of the moon would be an enormous scientific success. Its instruments could record meteorite density, perhaps reveal whether the moon has an atmosphere. Even more important, it could tell some of the secrets of the source of earth's magnetism, and of the thickness of the radiation...
...plot turns on the old snooper-duper situation. Lemmon & Co. are determined to have a mad ball in a neighboring village, and invite all the nurses -even though it's breaking the book for enlisted men and officers to "socialize."' But that dog Kovacs. a fellow with a suspicious nature and an investigative turn of mind, soon begins to sniff the wind. "They're up to something!" he mutters. "I can smell it! I can taste it!" Day after day his spies report-nothing. Day after day, in snap inspections, he finds-nothing...
...raid on its front page; the Oregonian buried it in the sports section. Last week, at Langley's urging, the county grand jury delivered its first indictments in the case. To the Journal's glee, the jury indicted the Oregonian's major sources, Elkins and Snooper Clark, for illegal wiretapping...
...information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from the embassy chimneys as files went into fireplaces, and on the embassy lawn a Russian stood guard with a hose over a bonfire, not hesitating to turn a full stream of water into the face of any snooper peering through the hedge. In Moscow the Russians held up the departure of the Australian embassy staff, after first ordering them out of the country within three days...
...table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send off a report signed with his code number. A few days later, the unsuspecting waiter would be reprimanded or sacked. The board, employed ten such male spies, paid each $300 annually, plus allowances for their "business meals" (about...