Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year sentence, he agreed to become a Government informant. Investigators wired him with a tiny microphone taped to his chest and a miniature cassette recorder, no bigger than two packs of gum, that fitted into the small of his back without producing a bulge. Equipped with a magnetic switch on a cigarette lighter to activate the recorder, Lofaro coolly discussed Gambino family affairs with the unsuspecting Gotti brothers. Afterward he placed the tapes inside folded copies of the New York Times business section and dropped them in a preselected trash bin. Lofaro provided the Government with more than 50 tapes...
...York State Organized Crime Task Force carried out a well-rehearsed planting of a tiny radio transmitter in a 1982 black Jaguar used by "Tony Ducks" Corallo. In a parking lot outside a restaurant in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, one agent carefully opened a door, pressing the switch that would otherwise turn on the interior lights. Another helped him spread a plastic sheath over the seats so that rain would not spot the upholstery. With a stopwatch at hand, they quickly removed the dashboard, installed the bug, replaced the dash and closed the car door. The operation took...
...election has not yet occurred. Instead, the U.S. is undergoing a process that might be called "dealignment." Only 19% of Americans say they are "loyal Democrats who vote mostly for Democratic candidates," and a mere 13% describe themselves as loyal Republican voters. Three out of five people claim they switch between the parties in the voting booth...
...real power. The media do not make or unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. An official threat to your advertisers, a grip on your paper supply or a squad of soldiers at your doorstep, and your last issue becomes your paper's valedictory...
...Switch to the hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...