Word: trove
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...million, U.S. intelligence official Rick Ames and his wife Rosario allegedly sold Moscow a precious trove of American secrets. U.S. officials fear that during a nine-year period that ended with his arrest last week, he may have tipped off Moscow to virtually every CIA intelligence operation against the former Soviets, raising questions about America's security apparatus in the post-cold...
...intensified and extended into the wee hours. The shadow festival is a curious mix of collegiate revelry and Sammy Glick desperation. For participants, it's a chance to make a year's worth of contacts in a few sleep- deprived nights. For outsiders, it's a zoological treasure trove, a place where all the major species of Hollywood schmoozemeister can be observed in an only slightly unnatural habitat...
...leaders in China, Romania, France, North Korea, South Africa and Israel (where he trained as a paratrooper) made him a widely traveled statesman. Some were seduced by Mobutu's eagerness to serve as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the heart of Africa, others by Zaire's natural treasure trove of diamonds, gold, cobalt, copper, and the uranium used in the American nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in World...
...laughs in being held hostage in Lebanon, stripped to your sweat-soaked shorts and sour T shirt, chained to the wall of a cell shared with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American...
...July, Swamp Ranger began to deliver the major part of what became a trove of more than 5,000 black-and-white photos. Many of them are different views of the same individuals, but 1,700 different servicemen are included. Schweitzer also copied thousands of supporting documents from the archives, including photos of artifacts such as dog tags, uniform name strips, helmets, flight suits, eyeglasses, ID cards, class and wedding rings and many other personal items. "At one point," recalls principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Carl Ford, "I suddenly thought, wow, the Rosetta stone of the MIA issue...