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...concerned about the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead--a sure sign that all are concerned. It is really unavoidable. You are constantly agonizing over the answers you made to the last questionnaire, wondering whether an occasional flippancy (absolutely irresistible! I assmume you're acquainted with the inanities that psychologists slip into) is going to make a red light blink on the grading machine and a pink slip pop out. Of course, it turns out not to be that bad. Nonetheless, some ten people were culled out over the training period. In most cases, the wisdom of 'selecting out' was apparent...
...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
Bitter reversals don't happen to her. Relatively, one of the worst moments of her life occurred two years ago when she was the adolescent in the Broadway production of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. Opening night, her slip came loose and began to make its way to her ankles. She waddled around behind a couch and stepped out of it, sure that the audience had not noticed. When she came back out again, the audience exploded with applause. Even her embarrassments draw raves...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip...
...McCulloch how a new "clear and hold" operation was to sweep his area clean of Communists. In mid-sentence he stopped, ordered his driver to turn around. Just ahead, atop a tree, rippled the yellow-starred flag of the Viet Cong, a unit of which had evidently managed to slip back into the neighborhood after being swept...