Word: tipster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drop relief supplies over Bosnia -- a step that had seemed like a low-risk humanitarian gesture -- might have been answered in thunder by the Serbs. Still, the Bosnian hypothesis was by no means the only one. A caller from the West Coast credited the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; an anonymous tipster blamed Jewish extremist groups...
Crimson editors tend to dismiss "anonymous phone tips" as the work of unfunny Lampoon pranksters or overzealous first-years who have just rented All the President's Men. Yesterday morning, the phone rang, as it tends to do at the Crimson, with yet another anonymous tipster. The conversation went something like this...