Word: snooper
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...thievery. When Bennett lifted the hood of an employee's car to show Ford the new engine which the worker had stolen, Ford said: "You just tell him he better bring his old motor in here or there's going to be trouble." When an over-zealous snooper stripped a Ford towel from a baby wearing it as a diaper, Ford sent the family a set of diapers...
...exact opposite of what he considered quite obvious, in the hope that intelligent people would appreciate the irony." This explanation suggests, in Author Pearson, a lack of appreciation both of the elements of irony and the demands of politics. Dizzy had no such lack. When a Tory snooper collected evidence of an illicit love affair involving Whig Lord Palmerston, and wanted to expose it at the next election, Dizzy sensibly demurred. "Palmerston is now 70," he said. "If he could provide evidence of his potency . . . he'd sweep the country...
...party, under General Secretary Stalin, had need of an engineer such as young Malenkov. The Communist apparatus was grinding and bumping under the pressure of Old Bolshevik rivalry and suspicion. While Stalin cut down and purged his rivals, Malenkov served him as personal secretary and snooper. The student technician of power had charge of all party dossiers in the middle and upper levels. He developed an astonishing memory, became a walking file from which Stalin could extract at any moment whatever record was needed to help along the ruthless struggle for power...
...magnificent files were filled with just such stuff, and the unsupported malice of gossipy neighbors who reported that the couple across the hall liked to run around in the nude, read the New Republic and entertain Negroes? In a nation where nobody loves a cop, much less a snooper or an informer, the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo...
...night was pitch black, patched with fog and laced with rain which rattled like beans on the seamen's battle helmets. From the second ship in column, the lead ship Iowa was invisible. Japanese snooper planes appeared only as "blips" on the radar screen, then vanished, having failed to detect the fleet. The enemy coast was invisible to all but the magic eye of the gun directors. In another group, following, were British battleships such as the King George V, with ten 14-inch guns...