| 单词 | agent |
| 例句 | He would be the worst undercover agent ever. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Even with the binoculars, the agent could not see the boy’s face, which was also nearly hidden by the downturned brim of a straw hat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even inside it, the agents seemed happiest if we took the elevator instead of the stairs, to minimize the risk of a stumble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As always, Durham presented itself as a model of tolerance and racial goodwill in housing, but a Duke sociology student found real estate agents there performed the same tricks used across the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Hidden by night, members of Congress, following separate routes, make their way in the dark to Carpenter’s Hall for secret meetings with a French intelligence agent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood before the class as if they were agents behind glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Their agents were monitoring the signals and had the situation in hand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z According to a retired agent, however, most have .38-caliber pistols. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The agent snapped on his radio and, as he watched more cars head for Bud Gleason’s, contacted Dona Luz and the highway roadblocks to see if anything had happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That when the arena was cleared and the people had gone home, when the tigers were back in their cages, Caesar could send some agent to seek Julius out and murder him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z When she hung up, she mentioned casually to her husband that apparently some sort of police agent had arrived in Milagro for a meeting and she wondered vaguely why, and with whom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shuttup,” Bud snapped, glancing up fleetingly at the agent, but immediately dropping his eyes again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The FBI agent and the cryptanalyst knew they were on to something important. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An agent reported that Morrison, after being released from jail, seemed “frightened out of his wits.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Blake Grunwald’s parents’ home was what real estate agents in California called seventies ranch style—which meant it was long and narrow, dark on the interior, and built on one level. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Schlesinger was a New Dane by birth, and an agent of Oakley Street by training and inclination. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A servant in Mollie’s house had told an agent that one night Ernest had muttered to her while drunk that he was afraid something would happen to Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To what lethal agent or agents, new to our environment, are people now exposed with increasing frequency? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Because agents could not make arrests, they fanned out with U.S. marshals and other lawmen, including Sheriff Freas, who, after being expelled from office, had been reelected to the position. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We do not know the agent’s name, and we do not know if she got a hearing before Howe. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In Montreal, nests of rebel agents with plans and money were busy hatching anti-Union conspiracies. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that “lived” inside this monkey was the unknown agent, and it was dead, for the time being. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But with the real possibility of nuclear conflict with the USSR—and the failure of the CIA to send its own agents behind the Iron Curtain—the time had come to make it happen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To advance his case, Tisquantum told other Indians that the foreigners had hidden away casefuls of the agent that caused the epidemic, and that he could manipulate them into unleashing it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z During that initial interview, the farmer had seemed to be suffering from dementia: he had stared at the agent blankly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Paul will take great care of you. And he’ll do everything he can to find your missing agent—that will be a matter of pride for him. He’s never lost any of his circuit before.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The FBI agents scrambled and made phone calls. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Since we’re now Oakley Street,” said Hannah, “may I ask you this: Is there another Oakley Street agent among the Oxford readers?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They watch with cameras and agents in white sport-utility vehicles who patrol back and forth along a dirt road on top of a steep embankment along the far side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As Stutman recounted years later: The agents would hear me give hundreds of presentations to the media as I attempted to call attention to the drug scourge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She couldn’t proceed with any kind of work with Level 3 agents, because she couldn’t tolerate the vaccinations. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They probably still had agents lurking here in the stacks, checking to make sure I was dead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Washington also got information from agents he ran himself. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But to become a stockvel member required large amounts of startup money, the resourcefulness and shrewdness of an Indian trader and the elusiveness of a double agent, during police raids. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Every hotel in town was to report the names of everybody that was registered in their hotel every night," FBI agent Duane Traynor explained. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In a memo, Hoover informed Stone that he had begun combing through personnel files and identifying incompetent or crooked agents who should be fired. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Armed guards in black shirts nodded as the agent passed through security and into the secret compound. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then began legging it across, like an SAS agent. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Semyonov handed his documents to another agent and quickly left the building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But a few days later, when Haupt was eating at a restaurant, he met a German agent named Hans Sass, who also used the aliases Paul Smith and Dr. Reichal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “So send some of your agents after him.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As I shuffled over to the toilet, a large flat-screen monitor mounted on the wall switched on, and the smiling face of Max, my system agent software, appeared on the screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When speaking to me directly, the Secret Service agents almost always called me “ma’am.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “What more can go wrong?” she said to the ticket agent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were moles and double agents and possibly triple agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z X-Ray went first, and when Armpit reached the one next to him, he could hear X-Ray arguing with the ticket agent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The plan, full of details intended to fool Clinton, was put into a pouch and given to an agent pretending to be a Tory farmer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Americans had stayed out of the war so far, they were eager to read reports about secret agents and the foiling of foreign plots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The sense of the meeting ran like this: military threat or no, if we are going to stop this agent, we’ve got to throw everything at it that we’ve got. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A basic rule was being broken,” KGB agent Alexander Feklisov later lamented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Editorials in Federalist newspapers accused him of passing information to the French government through pro-French agents in America and meeting routinely with Benjamin Franklin Bache, editor of the Aurora, the chief vehicle for the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For Washington, the bits of intelligence he got from agents were like pieces of a puzzle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But even the government agents, two men in black jackets who came some time ago, yanked at the hibiscus as they left. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The principal targets of physical or chemical mutagenic agents are cells that are undergoing especially active division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ira Baker, the train station agent, opened the ticket window at the Amagansett train station. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Possession is nine tenths of the law, and the Army had the meat and the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The house is good security. I had me a real estate agent offered me seven thousand last year.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of a two-hour interview, the startled FBI agent could not decide what to make of this strange woman. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The other comment, the one that seemed to sum it all up, came from an insurance agent named Michael Tingey. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Suddenly alarms go off and agents rush past me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The agent told us that these old bungalows sometimes have nice detailing like that. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But obviously Mendez—who probably would have made a great Secret Service agent—felt like a total failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In his final, careless act as a double agent, Ames had left incriminating notes to and from the KGB in his trash can. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Pete and I have been handling this stuff, and this is a Biosafety Level 4 agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the pubs around the railway station the men are packed in drinking the money the agents gave them for travel food. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So the Cardinal agent was viciously hot, a fast replicator, and it could kill monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that sometimes Oakley Street and other secret services had to use blackmail in order to turn an agent on the other side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “This is a simple matter,” the agent said quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's the agent, not these gentlemen. He's the one; He says it's the bank, but you know he's the one. We've done business with him for over twenty years." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mulligan is believed to have been in contact with an elusive agent named Haym Salomon, a Polish immigrant who spoke German. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z White and his agents took the stand to refute the allegations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Watching Burt perform a relatively simple forward one-and-a-half, the agent criticized: “Son, that was a sloppy tuck; you didn’t go into it tight enough.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It included a list of the names of sixty Soviet secret agents, recently graduated from spy training, who would soon be posted to assignments overseas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agents from the Order of the Clean Hand did not object. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The TV news crews followed the FBI agents and the disgraced principal out of the ballroom. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “The central hub where the Director and Assistant Director oversee the missions carried out by our agents around the globe. We have outposts on every continent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z In one early referendum on his rule in the South, Diem’s agents openly intimidated and beat up voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the next five hours, before immigration agents and Mexican soldiers stopped the train and opened the doors, Zepeda saw seven migrants fall to the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Gasps ring out from the agents around me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He also has his hired agents out searching, but his efforts to send and receive messages are hampered by the lack of telegraph lines through the Maryland and northern Virginia countryside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The government also infiltrated spies and agents provocateurs into the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the letters mentioned “family,” they referred to either the Japanese fleet or other agents, depending on context. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As outrageous as the claim was, ABI agents appeared to take it seriously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He’s got a pair of longhorn steer horns above his desk and lots of pictures of him and other agents along the walls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Though everyone in the house had been talking nonstop, it had mostly been to government agents, not to one another, and their own curiosities had yet to be satisfied. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The commercial product usually contains combinations of several chemicals, suspended in a petroleum distillate plus some dispersing agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Such are the marvels that can be conjured by an agent in search of the next deal. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A few of the other agents dash farther into the vault. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Only weeks earlier, he’d sent a “confidential” memo to White and other special agents, stating, “This Bureau cannot afford to have a public scandal visited upon it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Squatting down beside the front door so that his head was below the agent’s, he said: “That field over there—somebody irrigated it again last night.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent rarely carried a gun on his person, and had never had occasion to fire a gun at another human being. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What agent? Can you tell me what agent?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I head backstage to find two agents waiting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The cruel overseer had screamed and hauled the boy before a sort of agent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They come up with all the cool gadgets that agents use to fight crime. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Women agents who worked in the laundries passed the word. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Right away, the Israeli agents singled Liyana's family out and made them stand off to the side in a troublemaker line with two men who looked like international zombies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Here in the cool shadows I feel protected, as though I’m undercover in the jungle, a secret agent, spying on my own family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the agent, we would wait for the same moment. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In chapter 2 we saw one of the benefits of the passive, namely that the agent of the event, expressed in the fiy-phrase, can go unmentioned. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Kids, get to the lobby!” yells an agent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But a migra agent caught them trying to walk around a checkpoint. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Soon after her brothers’ deaths, the restaurant where Lourdes works is raided by immigration agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Legally, of course, he—they—the two of them don’t stand a chance,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have caused the removal from the service of a considerable number of employees,” he informed White and other special agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I kept looking around for any of the agents, and also for a place to dig a hole, a place that wouldn't be bothered if I had to do time. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night on April 22, 1956, American agents guarding the Berlin Tunnel warehouse observed movement on the street located just above the tap site, in the Soviet sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Her speciality was turning out to be the effects of Biosafety Level 4 hot agents, and in the presence of those kinds of agents you need to wear a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another special section, the HJ-Streifendienst, or Patrol Force, acted like junior Gestapo agents, arresting children and teenagers who broke the law. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My sister and I would make a game of guessing which agent we would get. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Instead, drinking transferred from the restaurants, bars, and saloons to the home and places hidden away from Prohibition agents. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z No self-respecting espionage agent would willingly admit he was disloyal. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z These contain an incredible variety of chemical additives and medicinal agents in addition to the basic foodstuffs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There was a very helpful Secret Service agent,” Henry says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The letter was addressed to Hall’s friend Saville Sax, who would take the message to Soviet agents in New York City. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He spread the agent far and wide in the town. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That man was one of the Secret Service agents who were supposed to be guarding me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The problem is that the agent only stands to personally gain an additional $150 by selling your house for $10,000 more, which isn’t much reward for a lot of extra work. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I see,” said the agent, as though all had been explained when nothing, nothing had. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a healthy symbiotic relationship, for the Research Corporation would function as Berkeley’s patent agent, and the university would become one of the corporation’s most important beneficiaries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Two miles outside Chamisaville the agent stopped at the state police bungalow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "He is a loquacious individual who likes to brag about his activities as an espionage agent and his connections with Nazis," the prison ward reported. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A real-estate agent may see you not so much as an ally but as a mark. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Howe fell for the deception long enough for Washington to dig in at Whitemarsh and for Major Clark to train his agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As an agent for the Union Pacific, he single-handedly saved Colorado’s wool trade during a blizzard by ramming locomotive plows through snowdrifts to open the tracks for trains bearing sheep feed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The men flashed their credentials: They were FBI agents. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dressed as Indians, they harassed the Van Rensselaer agents and the state militia when they came into the mountains to collect the rent. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At Caesar’s request the station agent told of how he came to work for the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Ken and other agents trained and trained until they knew the cramped space by heart. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A Republic agent is going to help me escape. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z After being appointed director, in 1921, Burns had bent laws and hired crooked agents, including a confidence man who peddled protection and pardons to members of the underworld. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He talks about migra agents shooting over his head and how easy it is to be robbed by bandits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Other double agents working for Washington were given the cover of “deserter.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered why the undercover agent had wanted her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "The agents got the lists from those registrants. They were looking for Neubauer, or his code name of Nicholas." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Elsie shrieks as a gorilla hybrid gets frighteningly near, but it’s beaten back by a female agent with a laser whip. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “How long before he might come down out of here?” the agent asked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Such contempt had deepened the Osage’s distrust of the federal agents and hindered the investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was as if these terrifying authorities, these uniformed agents, had been lying in wait behind the façades of pretty buildings for a disaster they knew must come. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His best odds are at night or in fog, when Enrique can see immigration agents’ flashlights but they cannot see him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He deliberately kept his mind off the effects of hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference was that I now had an agent who could help me manage my schedule. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z How could a career CIA agent like Ames, a man who had never made more than $60,000 per year, live such a life of luxury? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agent peered over his glasses and looked at Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Three North Korean agents grabbed her at dusk near a beach, stuffed her into a black body bag, and stole her away on a ship. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After years of spying for MI6, the double agent knew that his luck had run out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agent slowly removed his glasses and tucked them into his breast pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The primary agent of its progressive spread is the wind; the larval, or caterpillar, stage is extremely light and can be carried to considerable heights and over great distances. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You told us of an agent who rode up to fetch down the Indians and such? To aid us?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z None of the document names mattered; none of the agents acted human at any point in the story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Dingiswayo’s Zulus illustrate that each of those agents contributed somewhat independently to history’s pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In conclusion, the officer assured us that the chemical agent, “once you’re out of it, will be nothing more than a painful memory.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But, hoping to shave time off his robbery sentence, he agreed to divulge to White and other agents what he knew. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Howe’s plan was upset not by one of Major Clark’s agents but by a woman who became a spy on her own. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to confuse any agents that might be inside, you never used the word “liquor.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The agent rested his hand on the top of his gun. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The redhead was not even out of danger before Howard and Smith were tailed by jockeys and agents seeking the mount. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z KGB observers bugged CIA agents' phones and cataloged their daily routines. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of Clinton’s best agents, David Gray, provided him with many details about the preparations for an attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z France, Belgium, Resistance agents, refugees, wireless equipment and explosives smuggled into Nazi-occupied Europe—you didn’t dare talk about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Libby wants to be the world’s biggest theater star’s agent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The agents sped past the old trails that cowboys had once followed—trails that were now supplanted by cattle cars pulled by shrieking locomotives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Once we leave Blackstone Prison, Lord Kensington brings me to the Department of Supernatural Investigations to be debriefed, same as the adult agents whenever they get back from an important mission. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z For her, the years from 1938 to 1941 were a time of “exciting, round-the-clock adventures, as we counter-spied into the minds and activities of the agents attempting to spy into those of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sensing the agent’s belligerent energy, my mom stood next to me and tried to deescalate the situation by calmly asking the security officer what the problem was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Unknown at the time was the role American agent Alexander Bryan played in the great victory at Saratoga. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From the station agent’s words, one route might be more direct but more dangerous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Toward the tail end of the following afternoon phone calls came in from both Massachusetts towns, and the scoop on Charley Bloom was everything the agent could have hoped for. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Franklin wondered if Bonvouloir might be a French agent, sent to America to get intelligence on the colonists’ struggle against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But they also sometimes tip when something happens to transform the epidemic agent itself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered the agent a cigarette, but Kyril Montana only smoked the filtered kind, and so lit up one of his own. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They could be sealed off from the outside world while you handled a hot agent inside them with the rubber gloves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For other birds, too, the once beneficial rain had been changed, through the evil power of the poison introduced into their world, into an agent of destruction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1962, CIA officials learned that the Soviets might be willing to exchange Powers for a senior KGB agent, Colonel Rudolf Abel, who was then languishing in a US federal prison in Georgia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To take a clear photograph, an agent had to hold the pen exactly eleven inches above a document, using his forearms as a kind of tripod. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But each month, new agents posing as businesspeople, diplomats, professors, and other unassuming characters quietly joined the fight against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agents oily grin, trying to grease me for information I didn’t even have. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Reports from agents and informants like Morrison suggested that several of these desperadoes had knowledge about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The tobacco picker thumped around the attic for a week before a railroad agent took him on the next leg, boxing him up in a crate and shoving the thing through the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He wanted his agents to be a specific American type: Caucasian, lawyerly, professional. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Tiny, dark-haired, and delicate, she screamed and kicked, scratching at the FBI agents like a wildcat. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z American agents had no evidence that Semyonov was a spy, but they knew some Soviets living in the United States were spies. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Other agents were subsequently dispatched to investigate, all to no avail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The agent added some dehydrated foodstuff packets, an aluminum mess kit, kissed Marilyn again, and left. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These agents were still learning scientific sleuthing, still adjusting to completing their reports on a typewriter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Navajo men took their guns, packed supplies, and rode their horses in to report to the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The first awareness that external or environmental agents could produce malignant change dawned in the mind of a London physician nearly two centuries ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Summer was glad I could hear better, and Jack said it made me look like an FBI agent or something. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Hence, the longer the agent sat tight, the better chance he had. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent would inch around the side of his rock as the little man climbed, but he had no room for maneuvering. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A traveler; a trader's agent from Osskil; I am here on business,” said the man in grey. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Determined not to allow the Vietnamese domino to topple, American agents worked in secret to prevent elections in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A year later, Phelps’s daughter was abducted by agents sent by her father, while she was walking to church on a Sunday morning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Therefore, it was an unknown agent, a new virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They hoped the amulets might help ward off the hot agent if there was a major break in their suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z British agents sent numerous reports to their case officers, tracking the French as they set out from Rhode Island to join up with the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As intelligence gathering increased and improved, Tallmadge decided that his agents, along with Washington himself, needed secret identities. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent took out his pad and started to write on it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He said to the sales agent, “We want to buy two of them.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Only fifteen hundred field federal agents were assigned the enormous task of enforcing Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As the train began rolling, Cohen heard the FBI agent call to her. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their injuries, the New York Times reported, were “souvenirs of the new attitude of aggressiveness which has been assumed by the Federal agents against Reds or suspected Reds.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to give him every facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship, and also a similar authorisation to his agent at Varna. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Asked by the agent which team I supported, I took my cue from her red turtleneck and told her that I was for State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z These also prove to be agents of crowd infectious diseases—but ones confined to various species of our domestic animals and pets! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That started a decon cycle running in the air lock that would eliminate any hot agents that might have leaked into the air lock as they were going through. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The aids virus was first noticed in 1980 in Los Angeles by a doctor who realized that his gay male patients were dying of an infectious agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his wounds, the agent poured on speed, and Taylor felt something she hadn’t experienced in years: fear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “I am completely convinced of the opposite,” the agent replied. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the agent had gone on a tremendous amplification all over the planet, and it was still expanding its bum, with no end in sight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent poured himself a cup of free trade coffee from the wheezing pot, took a sip, and frowned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Guided by my parents and my new agent, Janey, I’d recently signed endorsement deals with several companies that sold products I loved and could relate to. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Starting tomorrow, Thomas is taking over Metias’s position for the time being—and I’m entering the patrol as a detective agent in training. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In a field report, an agent from the bureau observed, “It is a matter of common knowledge that Rose...was of a violent and jealous disposition.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Border Patrol agents pay attention to Blazers, other SUVs, and vans. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The agent waited alertly for some movement down among the adobe houses, for some telltale stir in the shadows between buildings or in the cottonwood darkness along Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were told that there were agents from Hitler's Secret Service whose sole job was to secretly watch them to make sure they were doing their job. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It’s not making things easy at all for the agents, squirming and kicking its feet wildly as it howls, “I’m innocent. I swear! It was a Sasquatch, not me!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z When the agents notice, they pull alongside and shine a flashlight into the eyes of the passengers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One government worker in the Mexican state of Tabasco, who in 1999 denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents, was dead a few days later in a mysterious car accident. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When a Soviet agent in Chicago made contact with Hiskey, the meeting was observed by FBI agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When agents interrogated the Kaw Indian, it didn’t take much for her to crack. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Agent Fiona brings our group to a quick stop when agents come bustling through a doorway struggling to control a ten-foot tall furry creature in ripped blue jeans and a green Save the Trees T-shirt. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The male agents at the CIA Moscow station handled the first dead drops. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His personnel file painted the picture of a CIA agent who was deeply knowledgeable about the KGB but also careless, clumsy, and erratic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Some of it ended up in glass vials in freezers owned by the United States Army, where it was kept immortal in a zoo of hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, in the words of one CIA agent, "a bonanza." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Her agent of infection was television, and the “virus” she wanted to spread was literacy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “To get to Farmington, you have to go to Hartford and take a bus,” the ticket agent said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She could move faster and with a lot fewer agents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Alarmed by the agony in Johnson’s voice, two agents rushed to the bedroom. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Every night, for a few minutes after he got in bed, he’d read about cattle breeding in the books the extension agent had loaned to him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His mind might understand he was a secret agent now, but his body still had a hard time believing it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Tom Geisbert went off to collect some pickled monkey liver that he could photo graph for viruses, hoping to prove that the Mar- burg-like agent lived in the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange imitate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little-understood interactions, transformations, and summations of effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the silence, the battle had been lost. the agent said, turning to his desk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This man was an agent of the Underground Railroad who lived in Cambridge, Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At least one of the witnesses had since vanished, and White was convinced that, as one agent had noted in a report, such people were being “paid by suspects to go away and stay away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Why had that undercover agent tried to arrest him in the rest room? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a network of secret agents in America, Hitler needed to build a new one. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A. Mancuso told reporters that he had been working on the case for some time, that he had already contacted one of the Lee woman’s agents. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One agent complained that “information contained in reports immediately gets into the possession of unauthorized and unscrupulous persons.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Well,” Jon answered, “that man Bate and his friend are out of jail, you know. Last spring they were selling falcons to an Arabian agent, and I haven’t heard yet that they’ve reformed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z CIA analysts soon identified a single manhole, located on Warsaw Boulevard in Moscow, as the best place for an agent to gain access to the trench. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When Marti Peterson arrived in Russia, her fellow agents at the CIA's Moscow station were struggling to shake off a long season of hibernation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Cardinal strain was definitely a hot agent—it killed the cells in vast numbers, and it killed them fast. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After two more long interviews on Saturday and Sunday, the agents mentioned they could settle the matter once and for all by taking a quick look in Gold’s house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent made contact with Mel Willard, told him where they were, and went over the bubble copter’s suggested search area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the advance work of Sackett and his woman agent, Washington already had a spy network set up in Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The agents have stopped this last group from making a run for the elevators because a group of scary-looking gorilla hybrids are close to breaking through the line of agents protecting the escape route. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “We have a few other agents embedded down there, including Napoleon. If they hear you’re in trouble, they’ll get to you. The hand sign is this...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “One must assume that we are waiting for word from Lord Dunmore’s agent with the Iroquois Confederation. He is supposed to sweep down with them from the northwest and provide us with most welcome assistance.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z You could be there to have your eyes checked, to meet your insurance agent, to have your taxes done. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With him, the composer as agent provocateur had arrived. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Papa’s other family would be the agents of our salvation! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, accompanied by a K.B.I. agent, Mrs. Helm had explored every room at River Valley Farm, toured the house in the expectation that she might notice something awry or absent, and she had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon Magnus allows us to take a shot at a practice course the agents use to keep their skills sharp. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I mean, she dumped him. He’s a free agent.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He reads it, scratches his head in confusion, and then calls another agent farther down the hall to have a look. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He was opening the monkey up, and now he was putting his hands into a bloody lake of amplified hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like we were writing to a celebrity, and all we would end up hearing in return was a letter from her agent saying thank you and here’s a signed photograph. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His dad finally arrives in a flurry of Secret Service agents, his beard impeccably groomed and his suit impeccably tailored. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “He means to chop our legs from beneath us....But if he has truly awakened, then why are the agents of the heavens...them?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The unknown agent could infect monkey cells and pop them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A Soviet agent would join him at the table. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In that moment, I would have done anything for a customs agent to appear and drag me away to the airport. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He got on well with Boyle, becoming his literary agent and translating Boyle’s books, but unfortunately he took a dislike to Hooke. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Modern spymasters call them double agents—spies who work for two intelligence services at the same time, giving information to one service about the other. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, Arnold wanted to be a double agent for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Magic Jay, Jimmy L’s secret agent name, was riffed from his favorite basketball player, the legendary Magic Johnson. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “So, do you have a special boy back home?” my mom’s agent asked over dinner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He comes back before crossing the Rio Grande and tells Enrique about riding on trains, leaping off rolling freight cars, and dodging la migra, Mexican immigration agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And it just so happened that she was married to Hale’s nephew Ernest, a man who, as an agent wrote in a report, “is absolutely controlled by Hale.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the past, agents had filed reports by phone or telegram, or by briefing a superior in person. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the agent continued to wheedle her, Mama hung up on her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “But the other agents weren’t so lucky,” Sticky said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z To explain Miss Marsh’s arithmetic: back in those days, the real estate agents in Grosse Pointe evaluated prospective buyers by something called the Point System. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But Tallmadge did not tell Washington the names of the agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Customs agent continued to direct him to the inspection area. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instruments are prostheses for thinking, and act as agents of change. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just before sunset an agent bought her for two hundred and twenty-six dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Flying home. It’s good to have a wife who’s a travel agent.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o’clock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent roused himself and strolled over to the diving board. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kondrachev had come from Moscow, where as a KGB agent he kept watch on US embassy personnel, trailing them throughout the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1949, the only American agents capable of uncovering the USSR's true motives were hunkered down in a closely guarded office in Arlington Hall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “We had a few older agents who were set to retire but decided to putter on for another year. Means we can only offer four spots this summer.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z U.S. immigration agents raid Wal-Marts around the country for illegal immigrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One of his training specialties was chemical agents, he said, explaining with a wink that “chemical agents make you fat.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But his boss had told him the strange story about the landing of German agents on Long Island and how the Coast Guard had run into a man with a streak of gray hair. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Becoming a special agent was his way of serving his country, he said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One, much the more likely, was that the girl was an agent of the Thought Police, just as he had feared. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Gross wounds and injuries marked the flesh of those closest to her, the two caught by the station agent’s lantern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Throughout his career, if he felt like taking a day off, he’d just pack up and go, leaving his exasperated agent and jilted trainers hunting for him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure my name was somewhere in it, especially since I was shuffling around in an all-black suit, looking like some kind of secret agent with bad feet. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But Davis told a reporter, “I think it is pretty well understood by this time that no one but the Director-General and his agents have anything to do with exhibits.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That gave Nick and his secret agents plenty of time, and they whispered something into the ear of every fifth grader. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The FBI was expert at covering its tracks, and its agents were willing to lie when confronted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A very quick-witted agent of ours was able to deal with the murderer and capture the instrument. It’s in that box under the lamp.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He looks all around, trying to spot migra agents, who sometimes race ahead in their trucks to catch migrants as they reboard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We get out of touch down there,” the agent joked humorlessly, heading for the door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the hazard was too great for us to take refuge in that mansion, lest some agent of the College return, I wished to see it now that my circumstances were so deeply changed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hale took the stand and testified, under oath, that during his interrogation White and his agents, including Smith, had brutally tried to coerce a confession from him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I tried to close my ears, to look away from the agent’s slick grin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Hoover needed White—one of his few experienced agents, one of the Cowboys—to resolve the case of the Osage murders and thereby protect Hoover’s job. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An elegant public relations agent, Grumette conducted a regular chess salon in her home, which players paid to attend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z What also did not lead to calm thoughts were rumors coming out of the jungle to the effect that the agent was wiping out whole villages upriver on the Congo. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, well, the scouts won’t carry you to the Institute against your will, it’s true. But to the Institute you must certainly go. You are to be my secret agents.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Captain Searle, the diver, the Lloyd’s agent, all those men on the stranded ship leaning against the side, staring down into the water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z From there he could see the agents approaching, and if they started to climb up, he could run to another car and run. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He had been in Bolivia when a hot agent called Machupo had broken out, and he had seen a young woman die, covered with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To many of his fellow agents, Bill Harvey's gold mine suddenly seemed like a mirage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The front of it was raised by some invisible agent and he came out with one bound—only to find his way blocked by cold black stone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z If there were agents out there looking for her, she didn’t spot them, but she wouldn’t be so cavalier as to think she was out of harm’s way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What Clinton did not know was that Gray was a double agent whose information came directly from Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Its relations to man are varied and historic^ Since many of its compounds are tasteless, it has been a favorite agent of homicide from long before the time of the Borgias to the present. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The nun’s blood was precious beyond measure, since it contained the unknown hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am convinced that Mrs. Kenny is pretty well on the right track,” Hoover had told one of his agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Years earlier, on his way to meet a Soviet agent in New York City, Ames accidentally left his briefcase on the subway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Not to mention all the usual customs agents and lawmen.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z An agent is stationed here, and I show him the pass too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Intelligence agents began decoding all the messages sent to the Soviet Union during the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to record the crimes against the Osage and wanted to make sure that the agents who had worked with him were not erased from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Secret Service agents became aware of him only when he starting firing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We had agents standing in practically every hallway of the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Navigating a busy athletic facility during peak workout hours posed a challenge for the agents on my security detail, but they managed it well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “It made me happy to see you skipping the trains and making a go of things here,” the station agent said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Please have your agent or representative contact us at the information below. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A spy from Karhide, a pervert, an agent, a sorry little political Unit like themselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At school, Twig’s always crawling around under desks, pretending to be a secret agent spy or something weird like that, but when her mother’s around, Twig turns into one of those embarrassed sitcom-type twelve-year-olds. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s no intermediate point in the process in which you confront the potential employer as a free agent, entitled to cut her own deal. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bernabe Montoya’s doleful voice crackled over the walkie-talkie, the agent replied succinctly, thoroughly, and then absorbed the information, or rather, lack of information, from the sheriff with equal automatic aplomb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent neither lifted his foot off the gas, nor swerved, as—with a staggering wing-flapping whoosh—the bird swooped across the windshield and over the roof, missing death by inches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she seemed old at the time, the agent was most likely fresh out of college. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All children get nervous on their first day at a new school, and all secret agents get nervous on the first day of a mission. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Burger and other agents made inquiries and learned that Morrison was in Dallas, Texas, using the alias Lloyd Miller. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The station agent wouldn't have been allowed to sell a ticket to someone whose papers were marked Jood. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had told agents that he was sure he could secure critical evidence—if only he could have access to the bureau’s files. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And if the family before you even irritated the agent a little, it would affect you, so people in the waiting area would start to grumble. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The agent pushes or prods something, and it moves or changes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Beiderman’s real estate agent had the nerve to call about someone seeing the place tomorrow. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes he played the part of an agent or manager, correcting my technique or suggesting songs for my repertoire, even advising me about my health. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At length the agent said, “Do you think if he lost the hearing he would quit?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 23, he spoke to T-Mobile and was told he needed to fax the subpoena to a legal compliance agent in T-Mobile’s Law Enforcement Relations Group. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Immigration agents picked this place, named after two rice warehouses, because it is so isolated. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The agent remained throughout the broadcast but did not reveal his true identity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That amounted to about thirty agents for each state. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z RANKIN: And an agent of the Communist International? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Said I must be the Devil Incarnate, or at least his agent, cause I shore warn’t no True Believer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z All my years of imagining the life of a secret agent for myself finally paid off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They’ve been sending agents to interrogate him—but agents are the reason he’s locked away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A German-born Communist trained in tradecraft in Moscow, Werner had spent the 1930s working as a Soviet secret agent in China and Switzerland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier on this day, alerted by sensor 53, agents caught eleven Mexican men who had been walking across the desert for four days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Having failed to locate any living witnesses, White found himself stymied, and Hale seemed aware that agents were onto him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The person on the screen listened intently as the agent spoke. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Finally, the four K.B.I. agents provided accounts of interviews with the prisoners, and of the confessions eventually made by them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael, and the goddesslike Special Operations officer who was there to oversee Queenie’s packing, and the RAF police sergeant, and the other agents who were flying out that night, watched with interest. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I went on to insist that the agents revise their protocols so that in the future Malia and Sasha could leave the White House safely and without some massive advance planning effort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He seemed displeased to find a pair of federal agents inside his home. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Consider now another true story of a real-estate agent’s information abuse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The contract provided that all monies accruing to Malcolm X “shall be made payable by the agent to ‘Muhammad’s Mosque No. 2,’ ” but Malcolm X felt this was insufficient. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Residents fear that the shots migra agents fire into the air to get migrants to surrender could fall on a child playing outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The agent, meanwhile, only lost $300—a small price to pay to ensure that she would quickly and easily lock up the sale, which netted her a commission of $6,450. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But this one agent said maybe he could interest some supermarket chain in buying the factory for a store. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another friend is panic-stricken when her three-year-old son is caught by Border Patrol agents as a smuggler tries to cross him into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “How old is your son, ma’am?” the ticket agent asked. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Michael said enviously, “He won’t get to buzz the Eiffel Tower, but he’s picking up a couple of Parisian agents. He’ll have to land well outside the city.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Wasn’t that the name of the undercover agent who had stopped him in the rest room? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried Chinese court dress with him in his canoe in case he should meet Chinese agents coming from the East. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The agent jumped easily from person to person, apparently through touching and sexual contact. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Without even waiting to see if he’d hit the man, though certain he had not, the agent triggered open the chamber, bapped out the spent shells, and quietly, almost calmly, reloaded the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z An agent wrote of the bombing of the Smiths’ house, “The two women perished instantly, their bodies being blown asunder, and pieces of their flesh being later found plastered on a house 300 feet away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z FBI agents also infiltrated black community and activist organizations, sought to undermine political education efforts, and illegally and legally surveilled, targeted, jailed, and killed activists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dad’s answer, through his agent, was always this: never. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Doors were opening up and down the hallway: an insurance agent, the tax assessor, a dentist in a white coat, all poking their heads out to see what the fuss was about. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He supervised undercover agents who pretended to be brokers and guides in order to infiltrate and disrupt the smuggling trade. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Each agent identified himself, in his daily reports, only by a coded number. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A Level 4 hot agent is a lethal virus for which there is no vaccine and no cure. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, amid such intense suspicion of the British, no one seemed to take note of the double agent inside the KGB's London residency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the story I’m reading, Isaiah Dunn just got pulled out of class by secret agents, who tell him he needs to go undercover at a championship basketball game to expose a corrupt principal. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Deep inside the CIA, these questions sowed confusion and mistrust among the Agency's most senior agents and leaders. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The point here is not that real-estate agents are bad people, but that they simply are people—and people inevitably respond to incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Finally, Rodney says, “I did. I was the first one to board the plane. Just as I gave my boarding pass to the agent, I reminded Mr. Dimming that you were missing.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He served secretly as a Patriot agent in France, in the midst of French and British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be a tough posting for any young CIA officer, let alone the first female field agent ever sent to spy against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And he hurried to the House of Hwang and he met the land agent there and he said without ceremony, “I have that with which to buy the land adjoining mine by the moat.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z So German agents funneled money to Indian immigrants in the United States, who used it to fund a revolt in their home country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was not seen as an unusual request from a senior KGB official like Yurchenko, who regularly toured the city to meet secretly with agents he was running against the CIA and other Western powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’d taken out KGB agents and lowlife informants and still managed to sleep at night. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z So agents watched known Communists like Chevalier, paying special attention to their friends and associates. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment the scruffy men pulled out their own badges and hollered, "Treasury agents! Stop!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The agent had taught each child how to swim, and how to swim well; now he was teaching his son to dive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The path of the double agent was lonely and perilous. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “So ye don’t want to be an agent to help others—only yourself. That right?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z For words that did not have a number code, Tallmadge gave his agents a cipher. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The federal agents continued to usher Sorrento through the lobby, which was packed with reporters, all pushing against one another and shouting questions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Caesar didn’t know why the station agent wanted to see them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Washington preferred agents who “live with the other side; whose local circumstances, without subjecting them to suspicions, give them an opportunity of making observations.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Though her case was never classified as a homicide, agents had clearly suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Strides were made in private housing, with a black real estate agent given access for the first time to multilisting services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Like other agents, White was supposed to be strictly a fact-gatherer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z George Blake had become that most dangerous variety of spy: the double agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the law firm would take the lion’s share of the money, leaving only a pittance for the African real estate agent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the place told agents that Bryan and Anna had been drinking there until about 1:00 a.m. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Often a writer needs to steer the reader’s attention away from the agent of an action. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But the next month, before most of the boxes had even been opened, NSA agents went to the Marshall Library to trawl through the Friedmans’ papers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The real estate agent informed us that our new house is a simple Cape Cod. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man who had leaked the explosive letters was Benjamin Franklin, who would become one of America’s most important secret agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk back toward the railway station and pester the station agent until he gets me a spot on the next train back to Amsterdam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Pike, though, told agents one more thing that was startling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For the Philadelphia part of the deception, Washington brought in Major Clark and told him to have one of his agents appear to become a traitor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, agents interrogated Carol Cummings and many of Ellsberg’s friends. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A British agent in Redding, Connecticut, sent in another report: “Private dispatches are frequently sent” from New York “by way of Setauket, where a certain Brewster receives them, at, or near a certain woman’s.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finally turn the last corner to my room, Lara and a few of her friends are huddled next to a couple adult agents. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z All these rumours had probably originated with Snowball and his agents. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The general’s cover story was that André was really an agent named John Anderson whom Arnold was personally running. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Told that the boy was twelve, the agent refused to sell her a ticket. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After the explosion destroyed the Smiths’ house, agents asked the nurse who had been on duty when Bill was being treated in the hospital whether he had mentioned anything about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Major Clark, as director of the most important Philadelphia spy network, gave many of his agents the cover of farmer or merchant. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote proudly of how the government agent had brought other farmers to see how well his crops were doing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Experiments show that the younger the animal is when it is subjected to a cancer-producing agent the more certain is the production of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z C.P. knew the FBI had infiltrated his unit—agents once had the temerity to try to recruit him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After handing the shooter over to the police officers, ticket agent Robert Parke crossed the ladies' waiting room to the fallen president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And without a rifle the agent was helpless. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamlet would pounce on these agents like a wolf on a pair of ducks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z George Blake stepped forward, out of the gray zone of the double agent, and chose to make the communist East his home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It also doesn’t help that so many agents have to stay back to protect the spectators Director Van Helsing is sending out of the auditorium. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Our agents keep forgetting they have it on.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She was a friendly, soft-spoken brunette who I assumed had been tipped off by the agents whispering into their wrist pieces behind us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I was imagining them a secret agent team,” I say finally. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 20, a team of FBI agents raided a Maryland hotel room where a man named John Anthony Walker was staying. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was someone whom the agents knew all too well: Kelsie Morrison, their undercover informant who had supposedly been working with the agents to identify the third man. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The consultants retreated warily, resolving not to call their agents until they were out of earshot. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We took off our shirts and shook our hair, since the chemical agent lingered in both. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately, Gordievsky removed his shoes and handed them to one of the agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He carried code names, passwords, and secret identities in his head, afraid that storing them anywhere else might compromise his agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "Once I got caught with forty pounds of hash in my suitcase and I told the customs agent it was hair henna from Egypt and he let me pass. They aren't that smart." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Kojo was standing on the other side with the three FBI agents. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The estate agent had told her that the landlord preferred expatriate renters. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The FBI agent who was in charge of the Oklahoma field office had assured Hoover that the transfer could be handled without any “unfavorable comment” in the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the end, Gordievsky made the lonely and wrenching decision of the double agent: to save his own life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Until, finally, we see Milton and Tessie, dressed in their best, following a real estate agent through a big house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The agent spent a few weeks in Osage County before concluding that “any continued investigation is useless.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They believed he was secretly a Communist, and perhaps even in touch with Soviet agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt quiet and at peace with himself when he was padding around a hot zone in a space suit, carrying a rack of test tubes that held an unknown deadly agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the agents shifted gears after learning the buyer’s race and steered him to houses in all-black areas. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the ranch was nothing but a retreat for white secret agents and black informants. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes us forever with our Indian passports and visas, but finally we make it through the blur of lines, paperwork, and questions from security agents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Here I'd thought of her as a cold-blooded agent when she was really nothing but a slightly dopey, inexperienced speech teacher. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was a long pause during which the agent took off his spectacles as though to see her better. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, all right, I was going to go to Slughorn’s Christmas party with her, but she never said...just as friends...I’m a free agent...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She holds up a small cube, smiling like it’s some wonder bonding agent on an infomercial. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z FBI agent Robert Lamphere had heard about the contents of the safe in his boss's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” the real estate agent moaned, “1 needed that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1929, an agent resigned with the complaint that Hoover’s initiatives were “directed against the personnel rather than against the criminal.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had examined every lead, checked every hotel, visited every boardinghouse and real estate agent, and yet now he had to begin his search anew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “All the agent trainees. But you weren’t there so I came to find you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Some of Enrique’s campmates say they were apprehended when a rancher pointed a pistol at them, told them to freeze, and then dialed the U.S. immigration agents on his cell phone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z According to the accounts of White and other agents, he looked at the agents warily, insisting he didn’t know a thing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The hunt was accelerating; Lamphere recruited more fellow FBI agents to help track down his spy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were six people and a Scotch terrier inhabiting the remote farmhouse Major Major called home, and five of them and the Scotch terrier turned out to be agents for the F.B.I. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But it didn't take me long to find a bar, and for my agent to find me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Doctors at the hospital in Kinshasa examined the nun’s case and began to suspect that she might have died of Marburg or a Marburg-like agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Customs agents are government workers. They have to take care of the bodies they find.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Stupidly, I always thought the agents would be nicer to me than other immigrants, because at least I spoke perfect English. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In Warburg’s theory we also find explanation of an otherwise incomprehensible fact — that one and the same agent can be useful in treating cancer and can also cause it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They had all been infected with the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl in black races along the ceiling and the agents fire blast after blast, but none of them even comes close. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He tucked the packages higher up under his arm and realized that be was also carrying the book he had taken from the undercover agent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, you needed to say a password to the person tending the door so they could be certain you were not a prohibition agent. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Soviets quickly caught on to the emotional distress and instability of their prized secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Smiling, she passed the tissues to the government agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “That agent’s been fooling around with her. He told you she had a disease so that you’d be scared to bother her. He was protecting her from you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In forty years of battling against the CIA, the Soviets had never garnered so much intelligence from a single secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But the enemy agents weren't at the parade. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Blake's Soviet case officer went to extreme lengths to make sure that he was not being tailed by British and American agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Fascinated, watching him close up, the agent saw the boy’s lower features and posture change as the men below obviously gestured, pointing, and then the kid’s head turned and he was staring at the agent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Blake's handlers inside the KGB went to great lengths to shield him from MI6's counterespionage teams, who were always on the lookout for traitors and double agents within their ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z White now reviewed all the information that had been gathered by Morrison and the agents regarding Rose Osage and Joe Allen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was prepared to offer $450,000 but he first called the seller’s agent and asked her to name the lowest price that she thought the homeowner might accept. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maxim had returned then, while I had been upstairs, bringing his agent with him I supposed, for it sounded to me as if the room was full of people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I’d have agents walking ahead of and behind me on these excursions, but inconspicuously and at a distance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The mole "Mr. Robert" had been a CIA trainee several years earlier, along with his wife, Mary, who was also a CIA agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All seasoned KGB agents knew that the call to return to Moscow meant serious trouble. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But the stubborn FBI agent did not discourage so easily. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An Indian Affairs agent would later describe her as “industrious” and a “person of good character.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At his sentencing for treason in a London courtroom, George Blake was given one year in prison for each of the British agents he was known to have betrayed to the Soviet Union: forty-two. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The station agent, in green eyeshade and black alpaca work- sleeves, leaned through the ticket window, talking to a friend. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The moon was partially hidden behind ragged summer thunderheads, but the agent could still see the surrounding landscape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had explicitly instructed my travel agent to choose something inexpensive, in the thirty-to-forty-dollar range. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’ll know exactly where the ten-second place is, and that I’m either an agent sent by the government or by the black-market dealers that pay taxes to the government. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Gone, too, were the days when special agents were merely investigators.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And she says, “Oh, we're nothing until something happens. But my old commercial agent called, and they want me to go in for a Talbot’s ad tomorrow.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The idea had even crossed his mind that she might be an agent of the Thought Police. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Panting heavily, his jaw bruised and his leg bleeding, the agent crawled toward the beauty queen and smeared her mouth with the Mind’s Flower fruit, torn from a neighboring plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The importation of plants is the primary agent in the modern spread of species, for animals have almost invariably gone along with the plants, quarantine being a comparatively recent and not completely effective innovation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As with Ebola, the secret hiding place of the Marburg agent was unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The secret police would report that he was not just a scholar of elf-goblin relations—he was a secret agent of the elves, a traitor against his own people. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The only person whose eyes she dared to meet were those of the agent who was going to be dropped off that night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Two other men, wearing the coats and hats of Gestapo agents, stride past without even a glance at the boys. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Even so, all the agent does is apologize, and look for later flights. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He described party allegiance as “the last degradation of a free and moral agent” and claimed that “if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Sheltered by the dark, the agent watched the girls sleeping on the beach and shook his head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agents carefully put everything back, just as they'd found it, before leaving the room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At eight o’clock Howard’s stable agent stepped into the track secretary’s office, scrawled the name Seabiscuit onto an entry slip, and dropped it into the entry box. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We got home from California to learn that the publisher had canceled his contract, sending word through his literary agent that Barack was now on the hook to pay back his $40,000 advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The agent stood up to show that the break was over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For general cleaning, the kind a custodian would do in a high school, you’d go with a much gentler, cheaper agent, diluted bleach. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She was the perfect secret agent, in other words. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Agency was still smaller than its Russian counterpart, and its agents had to train hard to learn the techniques of spycraft—which Soviet operatives had been mastering for decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The chlorinated hydrocarbons are precisely the kind of agent that can bring about this kind of indirect carcinogenesis, because all of them are toxic in some degree to the liver. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A third hits Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in the chest, and a fourth ricochets off the limousine and pierces Reagan’s lung, missing his heart by inches. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As Kalugin would learn throughout the day, his mysterious protector was not the only KGB agent or soldier opposed to the coup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Because the Agency had no high-level agents in East Germany, Rolph's cable was America's only official source of information about the impending collapse of the East German communist state. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I did not recognize him, but he bore himself like a thoroughly trained agent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t make book on that,” the agent hissed sarcastically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Running system agent software was a little like having a virtual personal assistant—one that also functioned as a voice-activated interface with your computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The only people allowed inside his hotel room were his lawyers, who needed wills created, and his literary agent, who needed his next contract signed before Howie could kick it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If the agents spot them and lie in wait, it could spell doom for Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We did,” the agent said after a moment’s pause. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then instantly when the meeting was over, they cornered this fellow with verbal abuse, “Are you an agent of Rockefeller?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Ebola Zaire is the most feared agent at the.. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he arrived home the agent made a last short business call, then changed into sports clothes and went out to have a cocktail with his wife beside the pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They pinpointed the ship that was carrying the drugs, and customs agents raided it as soon as it docked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When Renee asked a Gestapo agent if she would see her family again, he pointed to a chimney with smoke coming out and said that that’s where she would reunite with her family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Indian Affairs agent reported, “This little remnant is all that remains of a heroic race that once held undisputed ownership over all this region.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In a final twist, when federal agents later raided her family farm, they discovered a huge still, which was producing gallons of illegal whiskey. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma was recounting how the security agents had come to the flat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But the agent took these periodic lumps without comment, and in this way he had survived. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z According to that argument, we can tell that the universe has a creator because only an external agent could have designed and constructed it so that its different parts serve their specific functions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Well, our travel agent had better be prepared to eat the extra, that’s all I have to say. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to his own agent’s intervention, the seller lost at least $20,000. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The time was ten past six, and the agent was anxious to go; his wife would be waiting supper. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z First, they’d bring up some of their Cuban agents from Miami. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My success as an unofficial agent for the SOE will cancel out my flight to France as an unofficial pilot for the RAF. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Newer maximums and mediums and many older ones have ceiling-mounted chemical agent dispensers in case of riot, and often an officer in an observation booth who can activate them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ames had permission from the Central Intelligence Agency to meet with the very man to whom he was handing over the Agency's most important Soviet agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In Campbell, agents stopped at the austere house of Bryan’s uncle and aunt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For an agent of the underground railroad, presumably no stranger to peril and risk, he evinced a nervous personality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z An agent used one chemical to write an invisible message. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The passive allows him to do so because the agent can be left unmentioned, which is impossible in the active voice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Is that the name? Well, it’s all up. No one’s going to the Indians. The agent’s in jail and the rebels has published the whole plan as an example of, you know, perfidy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The change helped insulate agents from local corruption and created a truly national force, yet it also ignored regional difference and had the dehumanizing effect of constantly uprooting employees. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We arrived first at the upper school campus, where Malia and I hustled past a gauntlet of news cameras and into the building, the two of us flanked by Secret Service agents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You are an agent for Ford motor cars?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But the two agents ransack the apartment anyway. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He saw himself as another William Sebold, the Nazi spy who became famous for destroying Hitler's spy ring in America by turning into a double agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Reassuringly, the agent smiled, “There’s nothing wrong that an invitation to share whatever it is Bertha’s got going in that oven won’t cure.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Interceptor planes were kept on alert, and 10,000 policemen were assigned to guard against any acts of violence or sabotage by enemy agents. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z We used the proceeds to pay admission to the King’s cinema, on First Avenue, where our appetite for bloody murder movies would be satisfied by a Western or gladiator or secret agent movie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of the war, as many as 250 agents ended up connected to him in some way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Quaker agent in Cambridge, knowing, as all such people did, that he was watched constantly, and that his mail might be censored, sent a message to William Still in Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The thief and robber of an agent—and may his mother and his mother’s mother be cursed for him—took all that I had. No debts can be paid.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It is the job of your real-estate agent, of course, to find the golden mean. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But my agent keeps insisting that many actors go through moments like these before they land supporting and lead roles. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Although there is a large literature on the classification and natural history of spiders, it is scattered and fragmentary and deals not at all with their value as an agent of biological control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A gate agent came over and switched my oxygen container out with one provided by the airline. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z One day he was in the hospital and talking to all the cops and FBI agents like the rest of them; the next he was gone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Beside her, the hulking Secret Service agent Cassius—Cash for short—holds his own copy in one giant hand, racing to finish it first. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Also an expert at watching agents behind glass to read their expressions. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z One of the men had identified himself to police as a former CIA agent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A new generation of agents would have to come on the scene, more than a decade later, before the United States was ready to make its next move against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Arnold tried to learn the identities of American agents in New York by writing first to Washington and then to one of his officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “In exactly what way?” the agent asked, leaning forward slightly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet spies in American cities began working on what they called “agent cultivation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That undercover agent would be prowling the bus station all afternoon looking for him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Kurnakov, “how do we know that you’re not just an agent of the U.S. government trying to trap me?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hattie denied any involvement in the crime but told one agent, “I am as smart as you are. I have been warned about you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It also meant getting rid of female agents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He may, like Christopher Marlowe, have been a secret agent for the Crown. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z White and his men tried to track down some of the witnesses outside the hotel, including an elderly farmer who had been questioned earlier by an agent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, the KGB had begun marking suspected foreign agents with an invisible radioactive dust that could be picked up with radiation sensors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This was to seal any cracks and holes, so that a hot agent could not escape by drifting through hollow electrical conduits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking down one of the tunnels, I turn a corner and am looking out on the beaver dam and the agent’s car. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But the gunman would tire, the agent knew. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s pick up the action sixteen years before FBI agents cornered Harry Gold in Philadelphia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Scott was the new local agent for the Utah State Bureau of Investigation, assigned to the northernmost counties. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agents use the attacks to get the advantage in the battle, pushing the hybrids farther up the hall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Semyonov was a secret agent for the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as they’re about to start boarding, the gate agent comes on the loudspeaker and makes an announcement. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They taped it shut with military brown sticky tape: the first line of defense against a hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was difficult because we always felt we were under FBI surveillance,” said KGB agent Alexander Feklisov. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank heavens we found you girls,” the agent said, smiling. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This was negative air pressure, designed to keep hot agents from drifting outward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the agent drove in, Bernabe Montoya detached himself from this group and walked over to the unmarked car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marti Peterson was the only CIA agent in Moscow who could move freely throughout the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was evidently the part of Brown’s skull that the undertaker had kept, in 1921, and given to bureau agents for analysis. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If I was concerned about their safety or whereabouts, I could always check in with the agents, but I tried not to. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Bobby grew to hate Vasiljevic, claiming that he was a Zionist agent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the end, then, it had had to be managed with the Old Lord’s agent, an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them in passing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Freedom riders in Montgomery were beaten so severely that an FBI agent said he “couldn’t see their faces through the blood.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the agent could extinguish his cigarette and find his gun, Taylor caught his jaw in a roundhouse kick, the same one she’d perfected in countless aerobic kickboxing classes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Blackie admitted to agents that Hale had asked him what he required to “not testify against him.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We didn’t know if the agent in the monkey house was, in fact, Ebola Zaire or if it was something else, some new strain of Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Secret Service agents, with their earpieces and guns and deliberately flat expressions, stood outside our doors, doing their best to stay out of our family’s private life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The telegrams also said that William was still on Riverbank’s salary roll, implying that he was not a free agent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The border control agents had said that Ampai had died in a fire only hours after Nok's visit to the Governor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z After thirty-six hours alone, the door to Dasch's cell was unlocked and he was taken to a room to speak to two FBI agents. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z According to a transcript of an interview with an informant, the agent said, “There are so many of these murder cases. There are hundreds and hundreds.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In a later report, an agent noted, “It is an established fact that when she was removed from the control of Burkhart and Hale, she immediately regained her health.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He could meet with his KGB handlers with ease, since, as far as MI6 was concerned, meeting with Soviet agents was part of Blake's job. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Later, the Agency sent an inexperienced undercover agent, codenamed COMPASS, to pose as a janitor at a residence hall for American embassy staff in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Alex was soon to discover, the Special Operations Division of MI6 sent its agents to the same training center used by the Special Air Service—the SAS. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Bertha said good-bye, but for some reason she and the agent had never touched, not even to shake hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Moscow officials reminded their West Coast agents that they’d been sent a list of scientists to cultivate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So there was a second agent in the building, and it sounded as if it was Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z White and his agents spoke to Bunch, who maintained his innocence and told a curious story about Hale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She knew for a fact that FBI agents were questioning her friends and family. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A single Confederate agent, nearly penniless, had just frustrated the frantic pursuit by thousands of men being directed from Washington by Secretary of War Stanton. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the agent noticed all the refuse that had been left behind, pieces of waxed paper and tinfoil, discarded Baggies, a few aluminum bean dip cans, empty cigarette packages, and some crushed coffee cups. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z FBI agent Robert Lamphere in the 1940s, when he was the Bureau's top spy hunter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With a disgusted shake of his head Mr. Curtain exclaimed, “Children! Am I supposed to fear unarmed children? No doubt they’re in cahoots with my prisoner. Unlikely agents, but no matter—they’ll soon join him.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The agent stopped, casting about, trying to measure his progress. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "There wasn't any question in my mind that we hit gold on this one," one FBI agent commented. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Of the leads we have,” Moscow informed its agents in the United States, “we should consider it essential to cultivate the following people.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent does not want to come right out and call you a fool. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Say, can I ask you something? Are you really at home? I read that JetBlue agents just work at home.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The Bureau’s Garden City representative, and the agent responsible for a sizable portion of western Kansas, is a lean and handsome fourth- generation Kansan of forty-seven named Alvin Adams Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoover also told Stone that per his wishes he had raised the employment qualifications for new agents, requiring them to have some legal training or knowledge of accounting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For there were not many buyers really—there was only one, and he kept these agents in separate offices to give a semblance of competition. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Some real estate agents worry that the hyper-rich will resent the tax, but so far wealthy homebuilders seem to regard it as a pittance compared with the other costs they incur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It protects the entire body from a hot agent, surrounding the body with superfiltered air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a beep and the agent said two words: “Operation Peacock.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He is stretching but certainly not breaking the convention that old-fashioned facts have agents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, the life-insurance agent who had issued a policy to Henry Roan, which had named Hale as the beneficiary, testified that Burt had also recommended another American Indian to target with an insurance-policy scheme. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But now my professional network and my opportunity to be a real agent for change had truly blossomed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Martin draped a tarpaulin over his cargo and they rumbled out of the cut, the station agent grumbling profane commentary until they gained the road. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps someday he would apply to become an FBI agent, and Mr. Eberhardt could put in a good word for him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The FBI agents were all staring at Jake, probably wondering why they asked this kid to help them. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Like all depot agents, Mr. Tuttle was cow coroner for the railroad, so I guessed right off that this was the farmer whose cow and mule got killed yesterday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His outlook infected the entire CIA, making it a place where no one could be trusted, and where potential Soviet recruits were assumed to be double agents sent by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Our agent got close to the lightning thing and then some monster startled him and the old Weed shriveled. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “If you can’t find it, please go to the back and take a number to see another agent.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then he phoned the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and a half-hour later the agent, Bookman, and Bookman’s mouthpiece, Rudy Noyes, met in the state engineer’s office. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent flipped through the file in his hand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ex-CIA agent had been identified as James McCord, currently employed by the Committee to Reelect the President—which was headed by Nixon’s former attorney general, John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Fairfax town marshal also shared with agents a disturbing detail: around the time of Anna’s murder, he had found a dark stain on the backseat of Rose’s car. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They dictated how agents gathered and processed information. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In all these changes living organisms are active agents. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From his office in the Soviet-East European Division, Ames pulled secret files on every Soviet agent who had switched sides and was now working with the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To meet this challenge, America's intelligence agencies had few resources and only a handful of agents at their disposal. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he was told by a customs agent that he had to have additional pages added to his passport. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They wrote directly to the Marines and complained to the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “That boy will be hung,” the agent had prophesied. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m of the understanding that you are almost done with your training as an agent, correct? That you’ve already finished your courses on tracking?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The agents wrestle Bigfoot through another door on the opposite side of the hall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “How soon can you get back to me with a definite yes or no about this second agent? We need to know as soon as possible.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before, a binding agent had solved the problem with black powder, and melting had produced our reliable rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was learning how to identify hot agents by eye, by looking at photographs of the particles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they all drive north together, and El Tirindaro walks his clients around Border Patrol checkpoints, giving wide berth to the agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was an experienced spy and courier for KGB agents in New York, and she was in New Mexico to meet Ted Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The firm would handle their loan applications, and then take a commission, which it would split with the real estate agent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Isaacson did everything she could to save Mayinga, but she was as helpless before the agent as medieval doctors had been in the face of the black plague. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I refuse to allow my agent to walk about as a Dutchman,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The first was an agent’s report from a conversation with a trusted informant, who had indicated that Burt and Hale were “very intimate” associates. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One such double agent was Elijah Hunter, a captain in the American Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had had his fair share of scares with hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They had all been exposed to these environmental agents, with a fair amount of exposure,” he reports. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The agent turned to face the cop who entered. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z What Regina didn’t know, however, was that since 1942 the Justice Department had suspected her of being a Soviet espionage agent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After ten months of training and combat as a Marine, I was now seventeen years old— according to the records kept by the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been nobody, down ' through his years as a policeman, that the agent had ever trusted entirely. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The espionage war with the KGB had taken center stage, and MI6 was determined to send its best agents against the communist foe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Burns, a former Secret Service agent, had succeeded Pinkerton as the world’s most celebrated private eye. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I can’t sell my house because of this lightning thing. I can’t get an insurance agent to write me a homeowners’ policy. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning, for something to do, I lost my agent in the subway system and went to Lucas's apartment. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z So would another agent, Frank Smith, a Texan who listed his interests thus: “Pistol and rifle practice—Big game hunting—Game fishing—Mountain climbing—Adventures—Man hunting.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But after the war, Berg confided in a fellow secret agent, Earl Brodie. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The cop jerked his head, motioning the agent into the hall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z By using a cutout, André could stay in New York and never be caught in the company of his agent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It remains classified as a Level 4 hot agent, and if you want to shake hands with it, you had better be wearing a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained cheerily that he’d once hoped to become an agent after leaving the military, but that given the injury he was now figuring out a new plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But you have to understand, there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A small army of agents tracked down every name the Russian man had handed over: They were all genuine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not long after moving in, I found out from the real estate agent that my boss is the owner. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Working together, the CIA and FBI conducted a painstaking search, cross-referencing everyone who had access to the names of the agents executed by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Old-timers mocked them as “Boy Scouts” who had “college-trained flat feet,” and this was not untrue; as one agent later admitted, “We were a bunch of greenhorns who had no idea what we were doing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Fuchs had escaped to England one step ahead of Hitler's agents in the 1930s. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Frank Crawley,” said Maxim, and I turned to the agent, a colourless, rather thin man with a prominent Adam’s apple, in whose eyes I read relief as he looked upon me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And Washington, playing his role in the agent’s double-dealing, supplied Hunter with such real tidbits as the actual strength of his army and the location of his supply dumps. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The average score became an agent’s overall grade. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “From the evidence thus far gathered,” an agent wrote, it appeared that “Hattie Whitehorn caused him to be murdered in order that she might get hold of his estate.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I’m convinced the Milagro Land and Water Protection Association doesn’t even exist,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “True, but don’t forget that real agents always work in pairs.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z To be an agent of God for evangelizing the world. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In field reports, the agents noted excitedly that their “undercover man” had begun to work among “the crooks in the oil fields and get the evidence he has promised us.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We hear rumors that he has been taken in for questioning by federal agents in Manhattan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At a makeshift training school in New York, agents were indoctrinated in the new regulations and methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When he wasn’t winning other people’s races, he was organizing his own and pressing other Buick agents to join him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” says the gate agent, not sounding sorry at all, “but as the last to purchase, I’m obliged to reschedule you to a later flight.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I said you’re wrong about me. I can be an agent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He has found some success in New York—he has an agent, gets auditions, and has been cast in small productions, though not yet Broadway. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Most of the other agents also had their bought girls and they were extremely anxious to keep other agents from tampering with them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An agent that could travel in a cough? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was highly trained, intelligent, and one of their own: the first CIA agent to defect to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agent was a particularly obvious and obnoxious one; I am not sure for what agency, as he never identified it, or I would say it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor was the sight of the agent himself any comfort. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z To pull off this plan, he needed loyal Confederate agents and safe houses located at points along the route. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too busy now and had to be prodded to take note of his former star agent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Remarkably, none of the agents expressed suspicions over the nature of her illness, even though so many victims during the Reign of Terror had been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then the agent would come to a page. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He’s a handsome special agent, always solving mysteries and saving people and getting trapped in deadly situations and figuring a way out at the last second. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Soviets were getting nothing at all from their agents in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the undercover agent was prowling around the cathedral. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The virus is Ebola or an Ebola-like agent,” he said to them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the agents let us through, but they watch us closely until we turn the corner into the Transporter Room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But sometimes the ability to omit an agent comes in handy because the minor characters in the story are a distraction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z An FBI agent asked to see her ticket and look in her bags. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, his shoddy work may well have been the key to his success as a double agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the hallway, Chase is on the line with his agent, the speakerphone blaring his personal business to anyone who cares. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I know where the others are, and although, under any other circumstances, I’d be better off as a free agent, I’m thinking our strange little fellowship might be worth maintaining. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “It will be sunrise soon, but I wanted you to see this,” the station agent said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He failed to explain convincingly how mountain ranges were formed and overlooked glaciers as an agent of change. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She started off as a reservations associate, then moved to gate agent after Charlie was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Station agent told me. How long ago did he die?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tallmadge had to wonder why Arnold was running his own agent in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably not, right? We were as stealthy as secret agent spies.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The night riders were on patrol, he explained, casting agent and passenger into dangerous waters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The agent wrapped her in a big hug. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Marilyn answered, spoke briefly with an undercover cohort of her husband’s, and called the agent into the den from the living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He published prolifically; his areas of interest, which included the propagation of electron beams and their usefulness as ionization agents, were among the most intriguing in physics; and his resourceful laboratory technique was widely praised. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The office grows suddenly quiet as two Gestapo agents stride purposefully through the office door. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I could hear dress shoes clicking down the stairs behind us, the agents trying to keep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Among these is the discovery that the toxicity of an organic phosphate can be increased by a second agent that is not necessarily an insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Two SIM agents were sitting on our rockers as comfortable as you please. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Legend says that some agents did not take their information directly to the American encampment at Whitemarsh but instead passed it on to a woman known as “Old Mom” Rinker. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A handsome, mature man entered and was introduced as J. P. Guillory, an insurance agent. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These sights disturbed him deeply because they told him that the agent had gone all through the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the interrogation unfolded, however, he was no less astonished that Marti Peterson was a CIA spy than the KGB agents assembled around them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But the reader, with no agent in sight, has no way to visualize the event being moved forward by its instigator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Among the herbicides are some that are classified as “mutagens,” or agents capable of modifying the genes, the materials of heredity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The agent’s glare would go right through bulletproof glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Within a matter of months, his agent had resold it to a new publisher, paying off his debt and securing a plan for publication. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z FBI agents were assigned to go to every hotel in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z As soon as he joined the legion, Champe took note of Arnold’s habits and, with the aid of two of Washington’s agents in New York, plotted a kidnapping. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z You have to understand, by the fifteenth time we did this, I stopped paying attention to the names of the forms or the faces of the agents. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Not only did the agency let most members of the spy ring escape, but the leading FBI agent sold his side of the story to the newspapers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He uses a black inner tube, which is bulky and easy for Border Patrol agents to spot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Sammy Cantu assured him the meeting would take place at the preordained time, maybe the agent had simply arrived early in order to look the town over and get his bearings straight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The first line of defense against a hot agent is sticky tape, because it seals cracks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’d have to. Otherwise, every bad guy in the supernatural world would start kidnapping agents to make outrageous demands.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The weavers at the Massachusetts Corporation had all refused the agent’s demand that they each tend four looms and take a piece rate reduction as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Most frightening of all, between March 1918 and the end of the year, eleven bombs were exploded at the offices of black real estate agents and in the homes of black families. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z FBI agents were sent to stake out the beach in case the saboteurs returned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This was a tough task, since Soviet agents didn’t know which American scientists were working on the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z White realized that the greatest problem with the earlier investigations was not that agents had failed to uncover any leads; it was that there were too many. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “My best agents were on that search—Magnus led the investigation himself.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "I'd like to see the agent in charge," she said to the receptionist. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That kept the agent from asking any questions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As an insurance agent, it was necessary for me to take part in one swindle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that on December 3 he was in the Rising Sun Tavern, not far from the flour mill, collecting intelligence from Philadelphia agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mom had become some sort of genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z After two months of searching, Milton was down to his last real estate agent, a Miss Jane Marsh of Great Lakes Realty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Before he’d settled into the corporate life of privatized security, the agent had initiated coups in third world countries. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It took him a week and, when the estate agent called her to say that the work was done, she went eagerly to the flat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A scalpel can nick your gloves and cut your fingers, and before you even feel a sensation of pain, the agent has already entered your bloodstream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother, who works for a travel agent in town, clicks off the radio and pours herself a second cup of coffee. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tallmadge never revealed anything about the way he ran his agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He has partners in three safe houses on the U.S. side of the river, people who will hide migrants if Border Patrol agents are in pursuit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Washington learned from some of his agents operating in New York that “some secret expedition is in contemplation, the success of which depends altogether on its being kept a secret.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was speckled with white spots, as hard as a rock, a biological bomb ticking with hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent’s telling him that if he handles this just right, this crisis could propel him to the national stage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The agent could call security and the whole family would be kicked out, so nobody wanted to get them mad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z One day in the summer of 1925, Tom White, the special agent in charge of the Bureau of Investigation’s field office in Houston, received an urgent order from headquarters in Washington, D.C. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Prior to leaving, Heinck had gone to a bar, gotten blitzed, and announced he was a German secret agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It happened so suddenly that at first the agent cringed and doubled over thinking the hailstones were bullets from somebody behind or off at a slant below his exposed rear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him is a whole squadron of agents. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Our next-door neighbor, a janitor, decided to change his profession and become an insurance agent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is important to chill the vial prior to decanting, as the agent boils at room temperature.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When a casting agent went to sleep in Tokyo, a modeling scout was waking up in London. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Watching from down the block were two agents of the FBI. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In college, the agent had been a first-string diver on the swimming team; he had almost qualified for the Olympics. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After quietly retrieving it, they unrolled the yarn, removed the agent messages hidden inside, and took them to Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent climbed three-quarters of the way up the ridge and stopped again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he left, the FBI agent had one more question. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Oleg Gordievsky's career as a double agent had landed him right in the middle of one of the most dangerous standoffs of the Cold War—and into scalding-hot water with the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ten of the twelve members of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee convened in the capitol, the meeting called to order by their vice chairman, Curtis Oda, a Republican and insurance agent. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the late 1950s, White learned that Hollywood was about to shoot a movie, The FBI Story, starring James Stewart as a crime-busting agent, that would feature a segment on the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I start to worry that maybe no one will answer, but then the agent nods and asks, “Do you know the way?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Sound is also being tested as an agent of direct destruction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The photographer, a retired Central Intelligence Agency agent named Howard Hunt, sat down to take notes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Of course, this isn’t their father’s time with them, but the agent doesn’t know that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Didn’t the agent who sold you the tickets tell you it wasn’t necessary to confirm on tickets purchased less than three days in advance?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At home, an agent stood guard on our front porch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z An agent lifts the shades from my face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I met real estate developers, agents, heiresses, fund managers, lawyers, clothing designers, professional basketball players, photographers, movie producers, and television correspondents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Even when agents seemed to be moving on the right track, they had not managed to produce any evidence that would be admissible in a court of law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Like actors on a stage, new CIA agents posted to the Soviet Union played carefully crafted roles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He would continue his job as a British spymaster by running agents in New York, including Ann Bates, a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who had left that city at the same time as the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Except in extraordinary circumstances, Mexican immigration agents are barred from carrying firearms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Federal agents terrified staffers by showing up unannounced at their homes in Hampton and Newport News, ringing the doorbell in the evenings to ask questions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hans Muller was a white estate agent who did business with Mr. Sidelsky and would engage me in discussion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z David Ballantine, Louis Napoleon, and a group of other Vigilance Committee agents had set up a barricade with some shipping crates at the steam chimney and were taking potshots over the top. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Before the Old Lord he heard himself saying and to the Old Lord’s agent, “Count me as anyone else. What is the fair price? I have it in my hand.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In addition, agents use a growing arsenal of technology: helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and seismic sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z For the fifth time, immigration agents shipped him back to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Unlike many of the double agents who preceded him, Aldrich Ames did not turn to spying because he was attracted to communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As an agent, Pa worked undercover and posed as a civilian to gather information for the government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They thus appear as agents potentially capable of blocking the whole process of energy production and depriving the cells of utilizable oxygen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The agents were forced to retreat, chased by the sirocco. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Harvey's agents managed to cultivate informants working inside the East German telecommunications offices, in order to find out which cables were used directly by the Soviet army and secret services. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One agent from the previous investigation, White decided, should be retained: John Burger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Well, one guy,” Mr. Levy continued calmly, “this very aggressive-looking agent, gave me some hope. Like all the others, he said, ‘Nobody wants a clothing factory today. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from field agents, the other main component of the government’s Prohibition enforcement effort was the Coast Guard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is a tragic cycle, condemning us to ever deeper inequality, and in the long run, almost no one benefits but the agents of repression themselves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The woman who broke you out of Thurmond—the League agent? What did she tell you about the White Noise they used that day?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z What I would not have given, back in Baltimore, for a line of officers, agents of my country and my community, patrolling my route to school! Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Eager agents answered the inquiries with assurances that there was plenty of inexpensive land available. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Soon after Deane arrived in Paris, he was targeted by a flashy, quick-witted British agent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The undercover agent took a quick sip of his drink and handed it back to the waitress. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are only ever thirty agents per outpost. They take on only the most dangerous missions.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They had all become little agents behind glass evaluating who got to check into the Economy Lodge Motel of Edmond. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Director Van Helsing is in the hallway surrounded by other agents. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Once, an agent from the Art Linkletter show stopped us at the Children’s Zoo and asked my mother if I could be on the show. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Faulkner had a wife, and she told agents that he was “refusing to allow Hattie to be sent to a hospital...in order to keep her under his influence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And though she needed to know what it was exactly that he was accusing her of, she knew he had not told the agent of those encounters. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “In the trunk of the Chevy,” the agent explains, “locked up in the garage.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It seemed as if the agents had once more been duped. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Your agent will easily recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z So he lifts her up for the agent to get a good look at her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Families often sent in extra cupcakes for the agents when there were classroom birthday celebrations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "But there's a silver lining. My agent thinks I'll get more villain parts now." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z This would really tick off the agent, because they assumed refugees were liars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In October 1864, Booth traveled to the Canadian city of Montreal, where he met with agents of Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The viruses, instead of being single-minded agents of disease and death, now begin to look more like mobile genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many times, then as now, an agent gives his spymaster an idea, and then the spymaster turns it down without saying why. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As those conversations took place, the one thing that stood out for my parents and me was the personal connection I felt with the agent I ultimately chose, Janey Miller from Octagon. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But if he had had a fleet of makeup men waiting in the wings, an agent, a contract, a percentage of the profits—what then would he be? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were a gift,” I said, trying not to deviate too far from the original lie I’d told the border patrol agent early that morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan—much like politicians or real-estate agents or stockbrokers—was a group whose power was derived in large part from the fact that it hoarded information. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Charging Dr. Euwe as the responsible agent, the federation warned him that it would consider the match “wrecked” if Fischer did not appear in Reykjavik by noon on July 4, Euwe’s deadline. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Speaking only “with the betterment of the service in mind,” White wrote to Hoover that he believed an agent who was familiar with a region and its people was more effective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “This container is designed to keep the agent cold and under pressure. Be mindful while it remains in the workshop. Avoid excessive heat in its immediate vicinity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As he and Elizebeth had every reason to know, the agents who enforced Prohibition were suffering heavy losses. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The station agent was a barrel-shaped man deep in his middle age, pasty-complected and soft. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Such intrusions are so common that Border Patrol agents advise ranchers to leave water and food outside, beside their doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She dabs my forehead with antiseptic—they are so careful about germs here—and I feel the sting and prickle of the needle, diminishing by the second as the numbing agent does its work. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The agent added, “So I guess we might as well get some shut-eye.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, without relaxing his vigil, the agent poured himself a thermos cup of coffee and ate Marilyn’s chicken salad sandwiches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides running covert operations, including dirty tricks known as sabotage, Franklin’s work would include gathering intelligence, sending out counterintelligence agents to hunt for moles and British spies, and using propaganda against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Several years after the Osage murder investigation, Wren, the Ute agent, was forced out of the bureau again, this time for good. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The agent ushered the girls into a plain white tent outfitted with chairs and a desk. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The agent crept back to the catamaran stashed behind the rocks and paddled through rough surf to the far side of the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Oppenheimer was not observed until 8:30 a.m. next day,” the agents reported, “when he and Jean Tatlock left the building together.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And agents try to stay separate from each other. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess that’s okay . . .” “1 assume,” the agent said, “that this is going to be handled basically as a local thing—?” Bruno Martinez nodded. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was probably just hurrying to let the gate agent know of the added passengers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The agents asked Gold to come down to the Bureau offices to answer a few questions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eating alone near some railroad tracks when migra agents grabbed him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Little did they know, two FBI agents were riding with them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And an angry Krassilnikov was not ready to let the CIA agent go. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This is that the reproductive capacity of the birds has been so lowered by some environmental agent that there are now almost no annual additions of young to maintain the race. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Be our guest—” The agent first dialed his wife, ‘i’m fine,” he told Marilyn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two FBI agents stood at the door, knocking. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He passed a group of big, gaunt, slope-faced horses walking dumbly in a line along the shoulder—Indian horses, the agent guessed instinctively—and after that he crossed the Rio Colorado into Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Malia and I just busted past the agents on duty, neither one of us making eye contact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The KGB watched and followed all US citizens working for the American embassy in Moscow, because, as the Soviets knew, any one of them could be an undercover agent for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On February 21, 1994, more than a hundred agents and other personnel quietly staked out the neighborhood around his house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “We have definitely confirmed that. However, there is also the possibility of a second agent in at least some of the animals.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me? I didn’t hear you,” the desk agent says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Was VanQuish really breaking up? Dylan said that you didn’t get along and that you were fighting and you really wanted to be a training agent like Fiona...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The agents were searching for evidence of disloyalty, or anything else to use against the Ellsbergs—though what they hoped to discover on Patricia’s teeth is difficult to say. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Seated on a barrel is the man who must be the agent, Skri. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be interaction, too, between a physical and a chemical agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In an inspection of the building, however, its agents had been unable to find anything they could identify conclusively as a Merchant product. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The mission was surveillance only, and the Weavers were unaware of the agents until a dog began to bark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a second report that I found in the bureau files, agents described Burt as a “murderer.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A few days later—after I’d moved past my tears—I actually began feeling excited to find the right agent, someone I’d feel comfortable with, who could share in my dream. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Federal agents scour lists of suspects, making sure no one is overlooked. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “And if he persisted in his claims that he needed no numbing agent?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe I’m not Quinton, but I bet I could be a decent agent if I decided to be. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They passed the floors of insurance agents, government offices, and export firms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid runaways and orphans vanish even more easily than government agents do,” said Mr. Benedict. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This must be standard agent dress code for special events. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But police, railroad security agents, or la migra could bar the doors, trapping him inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was only one way she could continue working with dangerous infectious agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent’s family was gathered around the pool on this dusty peaceful evening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is the agent’s main weapon: the conversion of information into fear. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He is something of a legend to the handful of people in the world who really know about hot agents and how to handle them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If American agents were watching the building, he figured, they’d follow him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z James would roll his eyes that comical way he had and say, Alfred, my man, if she's a devil's agent I'm gonna go right down and apply for a . The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The first migrants who spot twenty agents down the tracks scream a warning to the others: “Bajense! Get down!” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He jumped out his back window holding two five-gallon jugs of hooch, right into the arms of waiting federal agents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Morrison had not just been a double agent who had funneled information back to Hale and his henchmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As he runs, three agents follow on the ground, pelting him with rocks and sticks, an experience many migrants say they have here. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Storms are best, even when they bring lightning and he is riding on a tank car full of gas; rain keeps immigration agents indoors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “And that’s what separates the wannabes from the agents in the end. Quinton didn’t nominate ye ’cause he needed a rescuer, he nominated ye because he believed ye can thrive here. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The breaches threatened the lives of agents and created insidious doubts, with officials questioning each other’s loyalty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The agents knew that Chevalier was a member of the Communist Party. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Captured in March 1777 after a desperate manhunt, Aitken denied his crimes, but later admitted setting the fires to a British agent posing as a friendly American. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There, Washington, after getting all the information that Hewes had obtained, invited his agent to dinner. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One agent, he claimed, had sniffed the air and cried, “Don’t you smell that human flesh burning?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The agent would be wearing a dung-colored blazer over a red knit turtleneck, her heels sensibly low in case the suspect should attempt a quick getaway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “The bosses hadn’t heard from the station agent, so I was running express. This stop wasn’t on my schedule.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As Palmer’s anti-Red crusade steadily fell apart, he refused to admit that he and his agents had done anything wrong. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He spoke fluent Spanish, which he had learned during his years in the jungles of Central and South America, hunting for hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are just agents of God picked out of all humanity to perform this unpleasant task. Do you think I like the fact that I have to do this, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the agents cannot use it to locate and deport her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As with Fuchs, the agents had no proof that Gold was a spy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Four hundred Customs and Border Protection agents and officers deputized for local law enforcement. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We have seen the agent, who was much impressed with Godalming’s kindly manner to him, and we are all satisfied that whatever he can do to aid our wishes will be done. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z On the advice of agricultural experts and insecticide manufacturers, they chose heptachlor as the control agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So I dialed JetBlue reservations and had the following conversation with the agent: “Hello, this is Dolly. Can I help you?” answered a grandmotherly voice. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The TSA agent at the scanner yawned and stretched so hard, I thought the buttons would pop off his uniform and fly everywhere. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Then Marks would land with a boatload of British agents, go to the place on the coastal road where the first rider picked up the messages from Brewster, and ambush him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gypsies turned at me, as if Jason Taylor is the ambassador of the land of brick houses and mesh fences and estate agents. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Although studies are still under way to determine the exact cause of this epidemic over so wide an area, the best evidence is said to point to some agent present in the prepared hatchery feeds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But as his investigation grew, more names—and equally likely suspects—appeared on the FBI agent's radar. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I was a station agent. They found me different things to do.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If I went to a restaurant, the agent stood outside. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The district’s insurance agent was on vacation for the next two weeks. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Not wishing to call attention to himself, the agent gave the horn a brief beep, then drove right up to the pig, which snorted desultorily, refusing to move on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The agents never registered Burkhart in hotels under his own name, and referred to him by the alias “E. J. Ernest.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His stable agent, Sonny Greenberg, compared him to a mummy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Hoover, agents were now seen as interchangeable cogs, like employees in a large corporation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Although Washington was getting bits of intelligence from agents in Boston and from the Sons of Liberty, he still did not have an organized spy network. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As the train slowed down at each railroad station, Brown tossed the latest update out the window to an Associated Press agent, who spread the news by telegraph. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Oh, the agent was quick to believe him. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Finding major Biosafety Level 4 agents on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., is not the kind of thing interns do every day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He runs agents, reads coded messages, and watches for moles. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Oppenheimer’s personal driver and bodyguard—the one Groves insisted he have—was actually an undercover agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s looking at possibly a year at the maximum,” the agent said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Kyril Montana and Bernabe shook hands, the sheriff rounded up his men, and suddenly they disappeared into trees; the agent was alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The two previous chapters were built around a pair of admittedly freakish questions: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? and How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The station agent leaned out his window and rested his elbows, protected with black false sleeves, on the sill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Quite soon he was pointed out as the agent of an international conspiracy against public order. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "There are two people who want to talk to you about a high-level agent penetration of Britain." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Poppy had said this singling-out treatment often happened to Palestinians, even Palestinian-Americans, but one of Poppy's Palestinian friends had had a better arrival recently, when an Israeli customs agent actually said to him, “Welcome home.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z One agent, Alexander Bryan, had helped to win that battle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There were five hundred FBI special agents and a U.S. marshals special-ops team. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Kenny had told agents that A. W. Comstock, the attorney who served as a guardian for several Osage, was likely part of the conspiracy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But if the agent touched living cells, Nancy’s cells, it would come alive and begin to amplify itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hell, if you handled hot agents without a space suit, that would be hazardous work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Palmer’s agents burst into the building, shouting that everyone inside was under arrest. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He and his agents were looking for ways to attack the United States and its allies, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Hale knows everything,” the informant Morrison had told agents, and there were signs that Morrison might be playing his own duplicitous game. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The agent of change was, to begin with, a humble strip of waxed paper from the year i860. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As Washington shrewdly noted, the invisible ink would not only make “communications less exposed to detection” but also would “relieve the fears” of agents carrying the innocent-looking messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the procedure for that? What exactly does that mean?” the agent wanted to know. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the principal agents of decay, reducing plant and animal residues to their component minerals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Smith sent his stable agent, Sonny Greenberg, to the racing secretary’s office with an entry form. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir and lord, I am come on a little business, not to disturb your lordship, but to talk a little business with the agent who serves your honor.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z To completely ensure the men didn't double-cross the Nazi regime, they were warned that Gestapo agents had infiltrated the FBI. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Six years,” the agent said slowly, enunciating deliberately. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Having destroyed, its host, the hot agent is now coming out of every orifice, and is “trying” to find a new host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a good test to enter a bar or a store,” explained Feklisov, “because one of the agents had to run inside to make sure no rendezvous was in progress.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting conflict left two dead: a federal agent and Sammy, who was retreating, running up the hill toward the cabin, when he was shot in the back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They made their way down a short flight of stairs to the main deck, where David and the Committee agents were already hog-tying their new captives. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In that mood of lazy righteousness he wallowed in Guitar’s bed, the same righteousness that had made him tail his mother like a secret agent when she left the house a week or so ago. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as environmental cancers are induced by a wide variety of chemical and physical agents, so the malignant condition itself is manifested in many different and biologically distinct ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Migra agents would be less likely to climb to the top. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It does not matter if the agent of those forces is white or black—what matters is our condition, what matters is the system that makes your body breakable. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Well, not really. I mean, it was only a sixteen-point deficit. Also, since when are prep school games in our contracts? I need to talk to my agent about this.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The town’s teachers served as agents of the bank and every week collected money from the children for deposit in each child’s passbook account. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z FBI agent Dean McWhorter was sitting by the phone in the New York office when it rang. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “You have given a good description of the agent,” I said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the battle between the British and French fleets in Chesapeake Bay, thanks to Washington’s agents, the French may have been reading Admiral Graves’s flag signals. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned back toward the lawn, horrified to see my family being chased by wild animals and the wild animals being chased by agents, who were firing their guns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The estate agent said, “Aunty, don't worry, he will do the work again.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His hands were covered with three layers of rubber and then smeared with blood and hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He even had them officially listed and denounced for desertion, in case some British agent needed proof that the agent was really a former American soldier and not a spy posing as a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Others required her to consult with local agents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, of course. I just want you to be realistic. It may not be fair, but our job is to choose the trainees who will make the best agents.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The agents had a look at the contents of her bag. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On behalf of means “in place of” or “as the agent of.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were predatory real estate agents roaming South Shore all the while, whispering to home owners that they should sell before it was too late, that they’d help them get out while you still can. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But she supposed even an agent of death would have guilty pleasures. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If they reach town, it will be virtually impossible to find them, and the agents’ half day spent in the cactus and the searing heat will be wasted. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The agents were hoping to wear Gold down, to confuse him, to make him lose hope. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bernie,” he shouted into the phone, “that stupid storekeeper and the mayor have been blabbing to each other over the phone about that agent’s visit and the meeting at Bud’s!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, the agents are amazing, taking down monsters more than twice their size, but every time one falls, another appears out of thin air to take its place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z FBI agents and army intelligence officers did not. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They sent agents abroad to buy up libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z His Secret Service agent, who was also thrown from the car, was killed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z All of us grew close to our agents over time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The agent braked, but the pig stood pat, challenging the automobile. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Xenocrates pushed his way through his security detail and addressed a woman who appeared to be the head Nimbus agent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What any institution, or its agents, “intend” for you is secondary. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When one agent was informed that the buyer was black and was asked if that made a difference, he said, “Just to be honest with you, it does.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Even though the men were, as the manager recalled, “in a naked state,” there was something about them that screamed government agent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On April 7, Ellsberg’s thirty-ninth birthday, Carol Cummings called to tell him FBI agents had just come to her door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When he arrived, he was greeted politely and taken to an office where he met an agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z An agent urged Hoover to send condolences to White’s widow, emphasizing that there was nothing in White’s files to “militate against such action.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I am an agent of the prince as surely as he is. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If only she had known what was going on when she was in the agent’s office, how that vile man was lying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The incentives of the real-estate business, as currently configured, plainly encourage some agents to act against the best interests of their customers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I really do apologize, ma’am,” the gate agent finally says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Katie got news of her sister through the official accredited family reporter, the insurance agent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their contact, a former Confederate agent, Mrs. Quesenberry, had a place about half an hour away on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Understanding that the press, as the public’s proxy, was the most important agent in his campaign, Howard wouldn’t leave the reporters alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Egged on by HUAC, Americans now sensed that the Soviet Union might have agents anywhere—even in the US government itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the U.S. agents from the cities upstate appeared to be in no hurry for a visit; it was known that the deserters carried their arms and that they were desperate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d put their names on every waiting list they could find, and from time to time an adoption agent would call with a possible match. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This time, we really were like secret agent spies. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Get him to waiting agents in New Jersey. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We tolerate cancer-causing agents in our environment at our peril, as was clearly illustrated by a recent happening. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was long gone before the agents had flipped their badges or begun inquiries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “And—how did you manage to find your way here today, enemy agent mine?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was Uncle Ali, the Sierra Leone agent of the American adoption agency. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z At a Lota Burger stand the agent ordered coffee to go. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z George Kisevalter, a CIA agent who had worked in the Soviet bloc, managed to determine the Russian man's identity from clues in the doctored photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agent did a few more dives, a backward twisting one-and-a-half, a half-gainer, and a beautiful soaring swan dive, all of them executed in what appeared to be an effortless manner. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, he and his agents seemed to know exactly what to do. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Army that Hiskey had been spotted with a suspected Soviet agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The British agent reported he found nothing of value. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d fallen ill after a trip to New Orleans to negotiate with a delegation of trading agents from Liverpool and to visit his disgraceful haven. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The unoccupied area that the Osage were eyeing was bigger than Delaware, but most whites regarded the land as “broken, rocky, sterile, and utterly unfit for cultivation,” as one Indian Affairs agent put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “She is our captive and my guest, and as a distinguished former agent of the Church, she may have information that would be useful.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z MI5 agents immediately arrested Blake in London, and he quickly confessed to spying for the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Pollard and his agent, Yummy, came with them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about one of my personal heroes, Muhammad Ali, and his circuitous path to being an agent of change. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Migra agents particularly like to test suspected migrants with words that have the same meaning in Mexico and in Central America and sound similar but are not exactly the same. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Speaking is an autonomic business; you may search for words as you go along, but they are found for you by agents in your brain over which you exercise no direct control. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And that's because the double agent Cherkashin was running inside the highest ranks of the CIA was far more valuable to him than punishing a single renegade KGB colonel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For immigration agents, squeezing cash from migrants is central to day-to-day operations, helping underpaid agents buy big houses and nice cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A phrase like “well maintained,” for instance, is as full of meaning to an agent as “Mr. Ayak” was to a Klansman; it means that a house is old but not quite falling down. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The agent was so familiar with the map and with the landmarks he should be looking for that he never had to stop the car to orient himself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington had made him an agent long before, ordering him to pose as a Tory and to stay with the main British forces as they moved across New Jersey. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rosenberg trial was all the evidence many citizens needed that their country had been infiltrated by radicalized agents of the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I’m going to have to give you a shot of this numbing agent,” she says, holding up a syringe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At some point, John Wilkes Booth came into contact with sympathetic secret agents in Canada, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s all it took for Mom to call the real estate agent. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In modern spy talk, Honeyman was a “sleeper,” an agent under cover in enemy territory and awaiting orders, usually for a single, vital mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Other agents moved in and out under the cover of smugglers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And the agent could not stand to have something he was doing get derailed by someone with whom he’d been forced to work. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A few wanted other professions, such as one boy who wanted to become a county agent; another, a veterinarian; and one girl wanted to be a nurse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cambridge agent said that a small boat would be available for the shipment from Cambridge to Baltimore but he was worried about the trip from there to Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton and others were certain Booth was merely an agent of a Confederate conspiracy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided to keep my misadventure secret, that I would tell no one that I had been unwittingly an agent for pro-Ku Klux Klan literature. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea how long intelligence agents had been following him, or what they already knew about his private life. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And then a young man, the agents clerk in his neat suit and cravat, appeared at her side and asked her to come with him to the agent’s office. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z With no one else available, Royal’s superiors reluctantly sent the two colored agents deep into the Tennessee badlands. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z White, who had ordered his men to work in pairs for security, received a tip that a former member of the Al Spencer Gang had shown up in Pawhuska to kill federal agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Also on July 7 the Wells-Fargo agent in Midlothian, Texas, loaded a large trunk into the baggage car of a northbound train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She approached the bay window like a double-o agent on a mission to save the world. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, whether or not the little insurance agent’s conviction that he could fly contributed to the place of her delivery, it certainly contributed to its time. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling intense pain in his chest, he grabbed the phone and called the Secret Service agents assigned to the ranch. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The agent paused dramatically for a second as the magazine went around, then he plunged into a brisk summary of the problem. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The CIA had few contacts inside the Iron Curtain and even fewer active agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z White suddenly had to deploy agents to protect Hale, this man whom he so desperately wanted to bring to justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s the agents we handed the note to. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The agent flattened himself against the rock, thumbed back the hammer of his revolver, and waited for the horseman to show. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The English SOE agent who was being dropped off that night was disapproving. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Dad places both hands on the ticket counter and leans in toward the agent. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z One agent inside the CIA never gave up on the idea that a mole had burrowed into the heart of the America spy service. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z North America had not yet seen an emergence of an agent that turned people into bleeders. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “By contrast, see how humanely the Germans deal with captured agents? See how I am doing translation work, neutrally occupying myself while I await trial?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Kisevalter and another agent drafted a letter to be sent through secret channels in Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The table creaked as the agent stood up. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Give me the names, the first names, addresses if you have them, of the two witnesses,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The station agent made no judgments and looked genuinely aggrieved by Lovey’s fate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Pike told agents that he was supposed to manufacture evidence and to generate false witnesses—to “shape an alibi,” as he put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She had to pass by the saloon’s window twice before the station agent saw her and motioned for her to come around back. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In all, the INS has hired more than 5,600 additional agents since 1993 to expand its forces along the southern U.S. border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Often they are injured as they try to outrun the agents and get onto and off of moving trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps the local Masai people knew the Marburg agent in their own way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tallmadge was connected to Washington and to his own agents—but the agents were not connected directly to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a great many boats rounded up so that British agents could see preparations for the invasion of Manhattan from Staten Island. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Those rental agents who are kind enough to talk to me all recommend the same thing: find a motel that rents by the week and stay there until something opens up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The agents shot the dog, and Sammy, who was carrying a gun, opened fire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Ebola agent seemed not to be contagious in face-to-face contacts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "He testified in a number of court cases which resulted in convictions of saboteurs and espionage agents practically on his testimony alone," the prison warden wrote. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The station agent shook their hands and appraised them, unbelieving. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If American agents were ever on Hall’s trail, Cohen said, the KGB had told her to help arrange his transport to the Soviet Union, where he’d be given a new life. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z You could also hop on a bus, which would force the FBI agent to tip his hand by getting on also. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s probably not what he thought he was signing up for when he agreed to be an agent for the Children’s Aid Society. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I take the seat beside her, and though I tell myself that I am just an undercover agent obeying his supposed leader, I feel like I am a son comforting his grieving mother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lafayette Baker, the notorious detective and War Department agent—and a favorite of Stanton’s—had been in Washington since April 16. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have made a great CIA agent—I'm serious; I know guys who work for the CIA. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The uncle then made it clear that he wanted the agents to get the hell out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even my mother, the agent of my destruction, has begun to bite the hand that feeds her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some agents, especially older ones, despised Hoover and his edicts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Alex leans forward to the two agents sitting silently in the front seats. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I warned Intelligence he wasn’t clever enough to be a double agent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Dozens of agents scale the walls to meet them head on. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z K.B.I. agents, dispatched to Hickock’s home, found the knife inside a fishing-tackle box and the shotgun still casually propped against a kitchen wall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They read about the many women he’d dated, going back to his college years, wondering if any of them might actually have been Soviet agents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Henry refused to compromise; he left school, abandoned his plans to become a clergyman, and took a job as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, when the three agents convened in Dewey’s office, it developed that Duntz and Church had had better luck than Nye—Brother Nye, as the others called him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She had complained that she joined the organization to do social justice work, not to be a travel agent. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for Ebola and Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "You know why we are here," says the agent. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z His life as a public hero—and a secret agent—had begun. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The men led Marti into a room bustling with other Russian agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Really? You’re worried about your modesty when we’re going to have League agents on our tail in a matter of hours? Priorities, Green. Take out the shirt.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The agents sat in their car, watching the windows. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent promptly scolded K. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” she said. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She joined “the lecturing corps” as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, earning ten dollars a week, an amount equal to about $300 in today’s dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The madrina radios ahead to report how many mi grants are aboard and where they are hidden so agents will know which cars to target when they stop the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He would soon prove how much damage a single secret agent could inflict on an enemy superpower. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By stealing and reading secret messages and by reading the decoded reports of agents and spy hunters, Washington was finding out what the British were going to do sometimes even before British troops knew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he walked into the Soviet embassy on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, DC, and handed the guard a letter for the KGB agent in charge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t have been some kind of police agent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the previous agents on the case, including Burger, had betrayed the kind of casual prejudice toward the Osage that was then commonplace. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My mind is spinning as I’m led by two agents back to the youth dormitories. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But Jason doesn’t have “spy” or “secret agent” or even “mysterious.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Bentley had chosen New Haven over the much larger FBI office near her home in New York City, betting that she could avoid being followed by Russian agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He jumped out his back window holding two five-gallon jugs of hooch, right into the arms of waiting federal agents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What about the fact that real estate agents had shown him only the least-desirable houses, in the areas closest to Detroit? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1928, she made her first coast-to-coast trip, which allowed her to work directly with Prohibition and Coast Guard agents in California. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Franklin and Deane sometimes sent Bancroft on missions to London, not knowing that this gave the double agent a chance to report in person to the head of the British Secret Service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Lee became suspicious, but while he was pointing a finger at Bancroft, Franklin learned from his agents in London that Lee’s own private secretary was a British spy! George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Two agents run onstage and try to scoop me up into their arms. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “My brother was one of the best agents there’s ever been.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Director Van Helsing makes a motion with his arm and the agents move forward, surrounding the elevator. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Occasionally, Elizabeth would rendezvous with a Soviet agent in Washington by standing in front of a drugstore in Georgetown, wearing a red flower in her hat and holding a copy of Life magazine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was easier for Caesar to meet with the station agent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “About me going triple agent? No, nobody does. Half my staff quit because they didn’t know. My sister hasn’t spoken to me in months.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After ten minutes, as the conversation was ending, the agent told K., “Let me say one last thing. My client is willing to sell this house for a lot less than you might think.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I have been thinking of plans, but we are in a metal cage, and this tent is surrounded by agents of the Order. I do not think we shall escape.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The spy descended the staircase, swarmed by CIA and FBI agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Apparently Holmes had made prior arrangements with an express agent to pick up the box and load it on a train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Was he also a secret agent for the KGB? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack’s agent felt sure she could resell the idea to a different publisher, though he'd have to get a draft finished soon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They claimed that her hands looked nervous or clumsy, not good for work with Level 4 hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two Secret Service agents shoved Reagan into the presidential limousine, which sped to a nearby emergency room where the president received immediate life-saving treatment. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The agent for the book sent to my hotel a contract dealing with foreign publication rights which needed Malcolm X’s and my signature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These three agents of change I call the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he did not yet realize it, Washington was beginning to act like an intelligence agent: He found people who either knew what he needed to know or could find out. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I've only eaten half an apple since my encounter with the strange government agent last night. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Some agents he ran personally; some worked under Major John Clark, a brilliant Continental Army officer “on spy service.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ladybird Hope made her way through the angry mob to her car, where two federal agents in dark suits waited for her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The agents take Enrique and about twenty others to a patio. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z To understand them, we must see of what they are made, and how, although linked with the basic chemistry of all life, they lend themselves to the modifications which make them agents of death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her parents weren’t home when the agents came, and since Junie was the oldest child in the family, it fell to her to assume adult-level responsibility. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Arnold insisted that he could protect André, claiming him as an agent working for the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A smaller team of eight agents moved in to catch the KGB mole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The judge said that before he accepted the plea, he needed to ask a question: Had federal agents forced Burkhart to sign a confession at gunpoint or under threat of electrocution? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Along with documenting the roles of other agents, White no doubt hoped to secure himself a small place in history, though he’d never say so himself. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So White decided that he would be the public face of the investigation, while most of the agents operated undercover. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The agents followed the car to a Mexican restaurant in San Francisco. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lydia Darragh’s career as a secret agent is not easy to track. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And another agent had helped to win France’s aid. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been unmasked as a CIA operative, thereby rendering her useless as an undercover agent in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What Blake could not know was that the KGB agent, Nikolai Loenko, had been watching him for months, hoping to draw him into conversation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He leads me off the stage and up the aisle toward the exit, where Director Van Helsing and a few agents are helping people out of the auditorium. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He comes to a trail, climbs into the Bronco, and drives, opening and closing gates with keys from a ring that holds scores, given to the agents by ranchers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That night I told my cousin what the agent had said about Miss Ewing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn't take long to learn how to shake the agents. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For Hoover, that included getting his agents—often called G-men—to monitor left-wing activists. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was an agent they were targeting at present, for example, who was reputed to have an unhealthy interest in young boys. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Also I can’t say that the bleak aftermath of a special agent’s unsuccessful mission has anything to recommend it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I don’t care. I will be an agent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The agent Graves was seated at his huge rolltop desk and did not at once turn from his papers and acknowledge her presence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Satisfied that he had stilled her, the agent shifted his gaze from Lyddie to her accuser. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Evarts Ziegler has been my movie agent for maybe eight years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Geyer and Schnooks turned their attention to Cincinnati’s real estate agents. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time, “the last and greatest danger to our civilization.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, while he was at work, an agent poked his head into the lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A Nazi agent masquerading as a French Resistance courier. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z So the agent changed into his bathing suit and went out back for a swim. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It also yielded alkahest, the universal solvent—an agent that could eat through any substance in the world: glass, stone, metal, even diamond. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z An agent took a shot, missing the animal though scaring it enough that it veered off course and retreated back down the hill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That agent must have had some sort of detective ESP. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I dunno, they looked like FBI notes or something. Are you, like, an undercover agent or something?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Zombies pour out of doorways and the agents keep slicing them to dust with burning swords. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z When Dorothea and Nick, Dorothea’s agent and good friend, had put April on the bus the morning before, they had each slipped her some money. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not have proper equipment for handling a hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hope it’s that you gave my story to G. M. Pennington’s agent and they want to publish it LOL, he texted back. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The gazettes printed reports of raided depots and station agents brought to raw justice, but those were common slave-state fables. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The history of cancer is long, but our recognition of the agents that produce it has been slow to mature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z White had no doubt what would happen if he didn’t succeed: previous agents on the case had been banished to distant outposts or cast out from the bureau entirely. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I’m guessin’ you all know an agent when you see one. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z That was where Sargo was, as well as other key agents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One of the agents shouts, “Hold the position! The hybrids are retreating!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Tom was a dedicated family man, but like his father he was attracted to the darkness, and in 1917 he took the oath to become a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Malia had a provisional license by then and was able to drive herself around town, though always with agents following in their own vehicle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We dash over to an agent standing next to a small table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Agent Fiona calls, and a crowd of agents rushes in our direction. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A real estate agent had convinced them that they shouldn’t do anything until Ralph had tenure; otherwise they might find themselves “overcommitted.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizebeth also pinpointed phrases that identified Dickinson as a secret agent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bentley was in deep, a Soviet agent operating quietly in the heart of the world's most powerful country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Did you list your property with a real estate agent, Mr. Jurgensen?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I spoke with a rental agent in a chat room, and he showed me around a virtual mock-up of my new digs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Or, he could have Tallmadge run agents as a case officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She found out that agents had interviewed her financial advisor and doctor, and had even gone to her dentist and asked to see her X-rays. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But like the funeral director and the car salesman and the life- insurance company, the real-estate agent has also seen her advantage eroded by the Internet. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It is a pressurized, heavy- duty plastic space suit that meets government specifications for work with airborne hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The process of choosing an agent was a strange new experience for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The place was crawling with soldiers and FBI agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had finally come to understand something that would have seemed obvious had it not seemed impossible: Milligan, the missing agents, Mr. Bloomburg—they had all had their memories stolen. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Both these words seem to be real-estate agent code for a house that doesn’t have many specific attributes worth describing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The estate agent told her that an army officer had lived there during General Abacha’s regime; now the house was tied up in court. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And during the day there was always an agent camped out in the lobby, waiting for me, creeping up on me even as I called home from the pay phone by the back door steps. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Scientists at both labs began racing to identify the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On one occasion, after he failed to appear for several potentially lucrative races, his agent found him starring in a bull-riding exhibition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And at least one bureau agent who had left the case prior to White’s arrival had realized that there was a culture of killing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Closer in, leaning against the fence with stoic faces was a mix of local coaches, involved fathers, skuzzy agent wannabes, scouts from prep schools and even colleges. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Forty years a landlord’s agent and I never seen the likes of this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It would be the first time in more than eight years that the two of us had been driven by anyone other than a Secret Service agent, or ridden in a car together without agents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No one knew what had killed the nun, but clearly it was a replicating agent, and the signs and symptoms of the disease were not easy to consider with a calm mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington designed his intelligence system so that he could run his own agents, as he had run Honeyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The individual exposed to DDT, for example, is almost certain to be exposed to other liver-damaging hydrocarbons, which are so widely used as solvents, paint removers, degreasing agents, dry-cleaning fluids, and anesthetics. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Facing the prospect that something else had gone wrong—that Blackie Thompson had sprung loose—he picked up the receiver and heard the urgent voice of one of his agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An agent sits at a desk at the front of the room, speaking in the most boring monotone I’ve ever heard. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Around midnight, White left Burkhart in the custody of the other agents and returned to his hotel room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Two sleeper agents from communist Czechoslovakia had been living for nearly a decade in the United States, posing as defectors and staunch anticommunists. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, he said, the agents shoved him in a special chair, attached wires to his body, and put a black hood over his head and a device like a catcher’s mask over his face. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The estate agent brought a man who did tiles. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yes. Dozens. I’m trying to choose the best ones to send to my agent.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The chemosterilants of this group are alkylating agents, which are extremely reactive chemicals, capable of intense cell destruction, damage to chromosomes, and production of mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Too, the agent was an excellent bow hunter; and he sometimes went with an old college friend—the Milagro real estate agent Bud Gleason—varmint calling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he collected the rifle and the agent’s hat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z An Indian Affairs agent said, “The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “An Oakley Street agent with something to tell us, we hope.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Between the Latin factum and the modern English ‘fact’ there was a barrier that had to be crossed: a factum requires an agent, a fact does not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The syringe was hot with an unknown agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If the number of field agents expected to see that the law was carried out was pitifully small, the resources devoted to patrolling the nation’s 4,993 miles of coastline were pathetic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I were running a big house like the CIA,” Hoagland said to me once, “I’d breed agents by raising white kids in your standard Asian household. Discipline farms.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z George Blake's assignment from MI6 was to recruit Soviets to become double agents for the British. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z No record of how she felt when agents from the Bureau of Investigation—an obscure branch of the Justice Department that, in 1935, would be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation—finally arrived in town. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Thanks Bud, but I think I’ll look around,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, one of the plasticizing agents may act even more strongly than another insecticide to make malathion more dangerous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The station agent will be along. I’m sure of it.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When intelligence agents were finished with Shin, he reported to Hanawon, which means “House of Unity” in Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t want an agent from Room H to drift to the front of the building and get into the offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, 1 assume we’ve got it under control,” the agent said disgustedly, and hung up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you sure you are not an agent of the Nigerian government? It is you white people who allowed Gowon to kill innocent women and children.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As a Soviet agent, watched closely by the FBI, it would be too risky for him to make a direct approach. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Setting down his gun, the agent braced himself against a rock and began to scan the area with his binoculars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z American intelligence agents in Southeast Asia reported to Washington that a national election would almost certainly be won by Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The queue shuffled us forward to outside a travel agent's. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It does, however, indicate that when a real-estate agent labels a house “well maintained,” she may be subtly encouraging a buyer to bid low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As TRIGON's value as a spy grew, so did Marti's special status as the only CIA agent who had escaped the notice of KGB watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Their role was to act as agents provocateurs, and they would attempt to push us around, take our food, and inhibit any political discussions we tried to have. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some migrants stand on top of the train, straining to see the migra agents up ahead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Finally, adoption agencies routinely send staff members to evaluate the child’s milieu, and no reasonable agency is going to send an agent to Afghanistan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In September, a team of FBI "Super Gs," or specially trained surveillance agents, landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, near Howard's home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If a Soviet agent ever needed to reach Fuchs, secret passwords had been arranged by which the agent could make himself known to Heineman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes, local agents in Chicago and New York were dispatched and on their way. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The emergence of aids, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke very softly, but the agent heard her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The agents are desperate to get everyone out of the pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “He’s a security risk now that he’s seen this safe house and the agents here. He’s safer with us, Ruby. The president wants him dead. I’m sure he’d come to see that...eventually.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z That was the way the black women were regarded by the black agents. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the agent felt some sharp pains, in his legs, in one hip, and under his ribs, he could not tell immediately if he’d been hit or not. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stepped to one side as Secret Service agents swarmed past him through the door, carrying what looked to be guns loaded with tranquilizer darts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They swam together and kissed again and the agent made a leisurely pass at his wife, calmly giving a couple of pumps to her nice-sized breasts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He now earns his living by transporting anyone, including secret agents and diplomats, across the Potomac River. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It would be naive to suppose that people abuse information only when they are acting as experts or as agents of commerce. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Lowell, a management consultant, believes he needs an agent, a money manager, and a lawyer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was carrying a lever-action rifle without a scope, and he was close enough for the agent to hit with the pistol, though it would take one hell of a lucky shot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z FBI director J. Edgar Hoover assigned seventy-two FBI agents to investigate the suspects Elizabeth had identified. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One theory makes him a British agent who decided to spy for the Americans after he saw that they would probably win the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in this country, in this kind of fluctuating weather, that the agent experienced his only real, deep feelings of awe and perhaps of humility. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be foolish to assume that any single agent is responsible for damaging the chromosomes or causing their erratic behavior during cell division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Most of the policyholders were illiterate and did not know that their policies carried clauses severely restricting their benefit payments, and, as an insurance agent, it was not my duty to tell them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelsie Morrison had earlier told agents that Hale was certain that “money will buy the protection or acquittal of any man for any crime in Osage County.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As with the agent code-named REST, the diffusion method was Fuchs's area of expertise. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z George Blake's career as the KGB's most successful deep-penetration agent was wrapped in such carefully orchestrated deceptions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The agent, a stocky, somewhat bald, rather informal man named Bob Johnson, hoped his client wasn’t having last-minute doubts. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As the core of monkeys burned, the agent would amplify itself tremendously. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent smiled; Rudy Noyes did not drum up even the faintest wisp or flicker of amusement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the most distinguished research men in this field look with suspicion on any agent that damages the chromosomes, interferes with cell division, or causes mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Globalization 2.0, the key agent of change, the dynamic force driving global integration, was multinational companies. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “She’s—” I couldn’t think of the right word—except “double agent,” which isn’t what I meant, though I suppose that’s what she really is. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Enrique will have to outsmart Border Patrol agents on the other side who are skilled and dogged. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Doctors noticed that the Marburg agent had a strange effect on the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When you begin working with biological agents, the Army starts you in Biosafety Level 2. and then you move up to Level 3. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One such New York agent was a tailor named Hercules Mulligan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Steve Spiegel, then president of Music Theatre International, the leading licensing agent for Broadway productions, who made the decision on what high school would be asked to pilot the play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z One screen has the words Helmet Cam written at the top and shows agents in gray suits raiding a haunted house. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Hrv is a highly lethal but not very infective Biosafety Level 2 agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But not even Hoover had any inkling about the mole—or secret Soviet agent—hiding in the top ranks of Great Britain's spy agency, MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world’s physical laws. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z An agent from the Office of Indian Affairs soon picked up another report: Mollie wasn’t dying of diabetes at all; she, too, was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Such a move has to be arranged in a complicated way, with cutouts, coded letters, and a “safe house,” a place where the case officer and his agent will not be detected by counterspies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, generally your reservations are confirmed at date of purchase, especially on non-refundable fares such as these. The agent should have informed you of this when you purchased the tickets on Tuesday.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Statement upon statement echoed the cry of one real estate agent, who challenged neighbors to “stand together block by block and prevent such invasion.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z During these early months of her Moscow assignment, Marti knew that her fellow CIA agents could not truly accept that the KGB hadn't noticed her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the alley, leaning against a wall, the agent stood and watched me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z While that assault was carried out, federal agents arrested 450 suspected anarchists and Communists in raids staged in nine other eastern American cities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was 4:30 p.m. when FBI agents apprehended him and shuttled him off in a car to FBI headquarters. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “And this is your young agent reporting?” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z "To investigate me. The nurses went through my wallet and found the Lord Lister card. They reported me as a potential enemy agent!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But there were more important things to tend to, and so the agent rolled the creature’s corpse out into the surf, watching it go under. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z |
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