Word: daggering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been shot down, and was poorly planned. Its creators had clearly never considered the very real possibility of a U-2 or its pilot being captured, and were trapped in a lie when Khrushchev had the goods. Yet such are the unchanging habits of bureaucracy that U.S. cloak-and-dagger types, only 48 hours before the scheduled start of the summit, actually prepared an announcement that U-2 oxygen gear had passed re-examination and flights would continue. Happily, this announcement was killed...
This story may have placated allies in case of U-2 trouble, but it was bound to fall apart if both plane and pilot were captured. Conventional cloak-and-dagger types argued that the U.S. should have kept a discreet silence in the face of all talk about the U2. They wondered, too, why the U.S., if it really wanted to ensure against detection, could not have subcontracted the job to a foreign pilot without a country, perhaps a refugee from a Communist satellite...
...Cloak & Dagger. But Pilot Powers had bad luck: he got caught, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev says that he talked. Thus Khrushchev had the chance to tell the world about the U2's mission last week-with all the embellishment and distortion that best suited his case...
...Havana. Graham Greene's bestseller makes an amusing screenplay that first wildly spoofs espionage, then uses the dagger to tickle the ribs with social satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward...
...Havana. Graham Greene's bestseller makes an amusing screenplay that first wildly spoofs espionage, then uses the dagger to tickle the ribs with social satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward...