Word: courier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head, the Feds forced him to divulge details about huge bribes, totaling upward of $5 million a year, paid by shipping companies to union officials to buy labor peace. The FBI also infiltrated waterfront racketeers in New York at such a level that one undercover man became a courier for payoffs from shipping companies to the union. Justice Department lawyers expect to obtain indictments against both union officials and shippers starting next month...
...know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves at bay." He seems accommodating, but not until the next day are we assured that it will be possible to cross into Burma in the company of a courier of the Karenni forces. The courier, when he appears, is smiling. On his left hand, set in a ring of soft orange gold, is a large, smooth, deep-green stone of jade...
...tickets and $600 in show tickets on Lebón. The cashier did not have the $80,440 payoff those tickets were worth on hand and told the bettor he would have to send to the track's main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing...
Lamplighter: home-based courier servicing overseas supply or communications lines...
...natives may have to do without their favorite unless a dispute over syndication rights to the strip is resolved. Local rights to The Phantom have long been owned by the nation's sole daily newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict...