Word: informants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Myra her/his/its preoccupation-or experimentation-with artificial sex. But unlike Myra, which is redeemed somewhat by Vidal's satirical skill, these books have the lifeless neutrality of assignments thought up by publishers' accountants and carried out by literary conscripts. They not only fail to exalt, amuse, enrage, inform, misinform or anesthetize; they also fall short of truly satisfying grubbiness...
...statements also charged, "This intervention into university affairs has been undertaken without any prior effort to inform the university of the issues involved...
...Signal Corps' chief cryptologist, William Friedman, whom Kahn calls the world's greatest code expert. Friedman and his superb team had a head start. For example, they had already solved lower-level codes, and were familiar with common Japanese forms, such as "I have the honor to inform Your Excellency." As Kahn says, "these constituted virtual cribs...
...this is precisely what is required. Washington should tell Saigon what virtually every sane person knows--namely that the task of destroying the Vietcong insurgency is a Sisyphean one. The U.S. should then, of course, inform Thieu that she intends to pursue all peace feelers in the hope of ending her prohibitively costly involvement in Vietnam...
Coop authorities generally do not inform Cambridge police about students from Harvard, Radcliffe, or M.I.T. caught shop-lifting. "These students receive preferential treatment from the Coop," Watson said. "The Coop feels that Harvard students are not criminals and we agree. They do not deserve prison sentences. Most of them do not understand the seriousness of the stealing...