Word: spooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hopper's bias toward Robinson soon turned to open admiration. In the season's first game, Robinson collected four hits, including a three-run homer, stole two bases and scored four runs. But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. During one game in Syracuse, the opposing team turned a black cat loose on the field, shouting that it was the "black boy's cousin." Robinson responded by drilling a double to left. In 1946, after leading...
...Duke will use the precious time to set up their equipment and experiments, unfold their car from its Murphy-bed-like perch on the side of the lunar module, and then take off on a brief spin, ranging as far west as two small craters that they have named Spook and Flag. Young will put the rover through a driving test that includes "Grand Prix maneuvers" to determine the capabilities of the vehicle before returning to Orion to end the first seven-hour...
...this way," says the agency's spook in charge, "we consider this something of an investment...
Look to the Rainbow. Before the Bay of Pigs assault began in 1961, Radio Swan beamed coded messages like "Look well at the rainbow. The fish will rise very soon. Chico is in the house. Visit him." After the attack failed, Swan was gradually phased out of the spook business and used instead for weather reports and sending navigation signals. The U.S. eventually decided that the islands could be safely given away. For Honduras, which has claimed them since 1923, Swan has long been a symbol of Yankee imperialism. In 1961 a boatload of students sailed out to plant...
...agent. Kao (whose name is pronounced Gow) was reported to have been booted out of India, Mauritius and Burundi for fomenting subversion while working for the New China News Agency. The charge may well be true, and at least one U.S. diplomat abroad affirms, "We know he is a spook," though the same accusation was equally applicable to every Chinese diplomat in Africa during the 1960s, when Peking's men were aiding insurgents everywhere...