Word: squealer
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...that the groups are growing increasingly violent. FBI officials suspect that radicals have committed some of the state's recent unsolved murders. Among these is the slaying of Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, a black activist who the FBI believes was killed because radicals suspected-incorrectly-that he was a squealer. Last year the radicals claimed responsibility for 19 bombings in California; so far this year they have...
...this point in TIME, let me be one of the first to leak the names of John Dean (the Squealer) and Daniel Ellsberg (the Stealer) for Men of the Year. Unquestionably, these two glib national figures left an indelible mark on 1973, thanks to their deification by a tendentious press...
...order advocates sometimes find their sensibilities offended by that most unstable adjunct of police work, the informer. Trained from childhood to disparage tattletales, Americans have hardly a decent word for those who give information to authorities. The glossary runs to such pejorative nouns as fink, stoolie, rat, canary, squealer. In some police argot they are snitches. Yet no major police force can operate without some of the shady types who will go where cops seldom can, perhaps to a meeting of conspirators, or do what cops won't, for example, shoot heroin before a cautious pusher will make...
...York Yankee, explained it this way: the boys were sitting around a bar in Detroit hoisting a convivial glass when Dave Boswell, a talented but emotionally erratic pitcher, learned that a coach had reported him for cheating on an exercise drill. Boswell stormed out threatening to get "that squealer." Whereupon the team peacemaker, Outfielder Bob Allison, went outside to calm the raging Boswell. Martin emerged a few moments later and found that Boswell had flattened Allison and kicked him. Then the unfortunate pitcher came at Martin. "I did open my mouth a little loud to my manager," said Boswell after...
...stocky, reddish-haired man remembered by acquaintances as a job-to-job drifter, working at various times in a dairy, in a novelty store, behind a bar, as an ambulance driver, and in a meat-packing plant, where he froze several toes. To Birmingham cops, he was a sometime squealer in bootleg cases. And to his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen, he was a colleague who liked to talk-without ever getting very specific-about all the Negroes he had beaten...