Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intelligence officials feared that exposure of intercepted messages could tip off a hostile power that its communications channels had been penetrated. Though Walsh promised to avoid unneeded exposure of secrets during the trial, there was no way he could ensure that North would do the same. The New York Times reported last week that on Dec. 21 a high-ranking review board, which included Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Webster and National Security Adviser Colin Powell, refused to release key classified documents covered by Gesell's order even though Walsh had warned...
Amid the confusion of passing trucks and landing airplanes, my services as a Russian interpreter were in great demand, stretching my technical vocabulary to the limit. I was asked to come quickly and sort out a bizarre accident on the airfield. The wing tip of a passing Ilyushin 76 cargo plane had somehow clipped the tail of a parked Air Europe Boeing 757. Both aircraft were stuck in place. I tried to explain to an ever changing group of airport workers that the British pilot needed a small tow truck and strong steel cables to move his plane forward...
Ciavaglia passed the puck to Weisbrod, who saw the cutting Carone. Weisbrod's pass traveled to the front of the net, and all Carone had to do was tip it in for the goal...
Last week's arrests could be just the tip of the iceberg. When police severed the French Connection in the early 1970s, the Marseilles gang was replaced in the heroin business by the Mafia, which began using old cigarette- smuggling routes to accommodate the drug traffic. By the early 1980s, Sicily had become the world's Heroin Central, and Mafia leaders had linked up with Latin American dealers to ship cocaine to the U.S. and Europe...
...still won the primary and general elections, but some political observers retained grave reservations about his ability, his dedication and his intelligence. The previous two representatives from the district--his uncle John and Tip O'Neill--went on to become President and Speaker of the House respectively, and there were many serious doubts about whether Joe could fill those shoes...