Word: tip-off
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...helped al-Qaeda establish a smuggling network that is peddling Afghan heroin to buyers across the Middle East, Asia and Europe, and in turn is using the drug revenues to purchase weapons and explosives. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says that after a tip-off in May, agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says that on return trips from the Middle East, at least three vessels brought back arms, such...
...even though our basketball team was 3-17 before tip-off; even though the Bulldogs had led eventual national champion (a healthy No. 1 Connecticut) at the half in its first game of the season...
...game was out of hand not long after tip-off. Harvard senior point guard Bev Moore scored the game’s first points on a three-pointer, six seconds into the game...
...stings even more when you consider that for every Ivy League game there are at least 892 people in Princeton’s Jadwin Gym or Penn’s Palestra—a whole hour before tip...
...Crimson has dropped some close decisions that observers and the team itself might have expected to be victories before tip...