Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is a biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...several months, wall posters in China's capital have been attacking Peking Mayor Wu Teh-most significantly as the RAT'S TAIL OF THE GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will...
Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...
...marijuana cache kept in plastic evidence bags, and made off with some of the weed. The intruder has never been seen, but police think they have a pretty accurate description: stands 3 in. tall, weighs about an ounce, has slick brown hair, beady little eyes and a long tail, is prone to staggering, even on four feet...
...Handwriting experts examined the helicopter rental contract and concluded that it had been signed by Klar. But in a fit of inexplicable indecision, the cops failed to close in and make the capture. After completing their aerial survey of potential targets, the terrorists blithely drove away, losing a police tail in the winding streets of Stettbach, a nearby village. "An incredible performance," snapped an aide in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's office. "The Chancellor is furious." In fact, Schmidt was reportedly ready to fire Antiterrorist Chief Gerhard Boeden because of the bungling...