Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British in Vichy-held Syria and Lebanon. In later years he has loved to tell about the time when, as a green recruit, he was ordered to cut a telephone line in Syria; only when the pole began to wobble did he realize that he had cut the guy wire instead of the vital telephone link...
...Hawker developed his own exotic mode of operating, including in his letters lengths of red and yellow wire tied in a twisted knot to certify their authenticity. He negotiated with the FBI by quacking out his instructions on a duck caller over a citizens' band radio frequency in Morse-like code. It was the radio that finally did him in. An FBI agent monitoring the channel traced the signal to a 1968 Plymouth passing through southeast Portland and arrested Heesch and his wife Sheila...
...have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board, "you can't relax. If a dingo gets through the fence...
Bruce Munro, who coached Messing for two years, described Messing as "a real flamboyant character, a good goalie, a live wire and an opportunist...
More Shocks. The beatings went on for about half an hour. Then water was poured on the floor around me, a wire was fastened to the second toe of my right foot, and a spring-clip electrode to the nipple of my right breast, pinching so hard it cut the flesh. Trying to make me confess that I was a Communist, they resumed the questioning. Now my denials were met with shocks as well as fists. The voltage was successively increased, becoming so painful that I doubled over until I fell to the floor...