Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason...
Laxity & Negligence. What bothered the Senators most was the memory of Master Spy Redl. "It follows," they said, "that if blackmailers can extort money from a homosexual under threat of disclosure, espionage agents can use the same type of pressure to extort confidential information...
...wooden baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...
...trade found that, even in a world heaving with troubles, books promising solace for the soul or a cure for the demoralized were not as surefire as they have been in other years. One book, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, claimed to do neither but pointed a way toward both. Published in 1949, after its author's death, this volume of sincere, plain-spoken sermons and prayers by Senate Chaplain...
...Jones, Meet the Master, by Peter Marshall...