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(con. late 1930s) Undercover 15: [T]hose unfortunate townies who brown-bagged it daily up the hill.at brownbag, v.
(con. late 1930s) Undercover 15: [T]hose unfortunate townies who brown-bagged it daily up the hill. Undercover 190: Why don’t you take a crack at cutting down the San Diego costs?at take a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
Undercover 305: I was in the jail’s disciplinary section under deadlock, something reserved normally for only the most hardened and refractory prisoners.at deadlock, n.
Undercover 230: [G]rab this—how do we all of a sudden install silent cameras and conceal them.at grab, v.
(con. WWII) Undercover 23: At least once a week we would come across [...] a German sailor’s corpse. These we would [...] search for documents before returning ‘Herman the German’ to the deep.at Herman, n.
Undercover 75: [W]e were the unsuspecting neighbors of a joy house.at joy house (n.) under joy, n.
Undercover 129: Central Cover laundered me, i.e., a new name and consonant documentation, and assigned me a safehouse in Coconut Grove.at launder, v.
Undercover 146: ‘[W]hat do you think of the [Daniel] Ellsberg prosecution? [...] [D]o you think this guy is a lone wolf?’.at lone wolf, n.
Undercover 94: [H]e ordered a round of double ‘martoonis’ for all of us.at martooni, n.
(con. late 1930s) Undercover 15: This meant a half-mile walk to College Hill, breaking trail as I mushed on numb feet over powder snow and frozen crust.at mush, v.1
Undercover 184: [White House official David Young] I regarded as principally a paper pusher, whereas [Counsel to Nixon’s campaign committee, and burglar, G. Gordon] Liddy was demonstrably a man of action.at paper pusher (n.) under paper, n.
Undercover n.p.: [photo insert] [His] self-protectiveness in recording our phone conversations, passing my letters to others and writing ex post facto memoranda to ‘paper’ his files turned out to be no help to him.at paper, v.
Undercover 189: Liddy told me he had been given a show-and-tell appointment with the Attorney General.at show and tell (n.) under show, v.
Undercover 108: [T]hey would have to produce certifiable results [...] or that would be the end of the sleigh ride.at sleighride, n.
(con. WWII) Undercover 27: I would [...] bring back a five-gallon tin of 200-proof torpedo alcohol together with a few cans of grapefruit juice. So popular were these ‘torpedo cocktails’ that [etc].at torpedo juice (n.) under torpedo, n.2
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