Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been made by the hammer snapping forward as she futilely pulled the trigger. In addition, there is the record of what happened to Agent Buendorf when he leaped into action. Instinctively, as he had been trained, Buendorf grabbed for the hammer of the gun, trying to interpose the web of skin between his right thumb and his right forefinger between the hammer and the firing pin. In the confusion, just what happened is not clear, but Buendorf came away with a cut between thumb and finger, as though he had been caught by the striking hammer...
...hectic 54 hours of the summit. Thus he got a head start on most of the 2,000 journalists expected to cover the event. "There will be 35 heads of state here," cabled Nelan, "and they are meeting not only as a group but also in a crisscrossing web of bilateral talks. It seems likely that no one will know exactly what went on until some time after it's over." Keeping tabs on the receptions, breakfasts, lunches and secret rendezvous is one problem Nelan is prepared to cope with. Among the others: "snarled schedules, traffic jams, overzealous security...
...House, as charged, but the bothersome question remained of just when a contact man becomes so loyal to the agency that in effect he turns into its agent. As time goes on, the congressional committees investigating the CIA will want to know more about the agency's invisible web of influence that stretches throughout Washington. The CIA's ordeal has a long, long...
...occasionally cloying personal style becomes suffocating in the essay, because his foray into serious linguistic analysis is so confidently off the mark. He believes firmly and sincerely that the naive simplicity of his arguments have been overlooked by linguists for years, tangled as they are in their convoluted transformational web...
After hearing more than 150 witnesses and considering more than 800 pieces of evidence, the jury retired. Lacking any direct evidence or witness placing Little and Remiro at the scene of the crime, the all-white jury argued for an extraordinary eleven days about whether the web of circumstances was tight enough to warrant conviction. Finally, last week the jurors were unanimous. They found Little and Remiro guilty of murder in Foster's death and attempted murder of Foster's assistant, who was wounded in the attack...