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  • I am a senior member of the research staff and appointed liaison to the Vatican for this crisis.†   (source)
  • This established our liaison with World War II.†   (source)
  • He was on liaison duties in the French sector and initiated a last-minute evacuation of a small town west of Verdun before it was shelled.†   (source)
  • He was the liaison between Paradice and the Rejoov top brass, though he hadn't let them in yet, he was making them wait.†   (source)
  • "The more you shake the trees, the more falls out of them," said Richard Nunnally, city police liaison with the FBI art crimes unit.†   (source)
  • Part of my job was to visit the hundreds of drilling platforms going up in the shallows, to report on the rapidly multiplying undersea complexes, and to act as liaison with the development corporations coming in from TC and Sol Draconi Septem.†   (source)
  • If Holmes and she were involved in an indiscreet liaison, would he offer Ned the jewel of his Englewood empire?†   (source)
  • Their chief work, I learned from bits of conversation, was liaison with England and the Free Dutch forces fighting elsewhere on the continent.†   (source)
  • I traveled to these schools talking with youth and serving as liaison to the college.†   (source)
  • I have always found such liaisons a serious threat to the order in a house.†   (source)
  • Soon after him a man called First, who acted as liaison between the Gestapo and the Jewish Council, died at the hands of Jewish assassins.†   (source)
  • The family liaison person was here.†   (source)
  • He was particularly tight with our Days Inn "liaison," a gawky, shy kid named Donnie whom Rand liked to razz and inform he was doing so.†   (source)
  • Fifty years later, when Fermina Daza was freed from her sacramental sentence, he had some twenty-five notebooks, with six hundred twenty-two entries of long-term liaisons, apart from the countless fleeting adventures that did not even deserve a charitable note.†   (source)
  • But it's one of them little liaison jobs.†   (source)
  • Public gossip attributed the romantic adventures of his verses to his own life, but although he had numerous liaisons, true love remained as illusive and as unattainable for him as Novalis's blue flower.†   (source)
  • I was attached to a convoy as liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The Cowboy found for the tattooed drifters a room in the house of an uncle, undertook to improve Perry's Spanish, and shared the benefits of his liaison with the holiday maker from Hamburg, in whose company and at whose expense they drank and ate and bought women.†   (source)
  • When the liaison so casually begun survived the first encounters, when a kind of shy affection began to force itself up through the frozen ground, and shame abated, chaos more than ever ruled.†   (source)
  • The caller was a liaison officer from Washington, D.C., to inform me of the time chosen for our attack on the bridge.†   (source)
  • He didn't even hint at it really, but this sounded like an invitation for me to take over Jasper's place as liaison.†   (source)
  • Those connections had made him valuable enough that the CIA asked him to be part of a joint American-British liaison group.†   (source)
  • The Bandit was my liaison with the academy officials, but it wasn't until our third day in Beijing that I finally received permission to go.†   (source)
  • As the eldest of the three brothers, and the brightest—his intellectual skills would soon blaze brilliantly to the surface—Mike not only grasped the concept of teamwork and equal responsibility, he became a liaison between his father and his two younger siblings, an explainer of his father's rules and wishes to Pete and John.†   (source)
  • "For the past few years," Roth went on, "Captain Raleigh has worked as a Community Action liaison with the mayor's office.†   (source)
  • Still, from the moment she accepted the liaison with Jean de Satigny, she knew that she would never consummate the marriage.†   (source)
  • It was one thing to maintain liaison with the Lord, and they were all in favor of that; it was something else, though, to have Him hanging around twenty-four hours a day.†   (source)
  • This, combined with his mysteri-ousness, causes some substantial sexual frisson among the women in the unit and his various classes-energy he casually harnesses in frequent, though usually short-lived, sexual liaisons.†   (source)
  • The rule of threes enabled Tomas to keep intact his liaisons with some women while continuing to engage in short-term affairs with many others.†   (source)
  • Not to mention'as I found out over the next week'student body vice president, homecoming king, community liaison, champion volunteerer.†   (source)
  • After his first liaison in Ethiopia (and the only time he'd not used a condom), he had relied on the Allied Army Field Method for "post-exposure prophylaxis," as it was called in the books: wash with soap and mercuric chloride, then squeeze silver proteinate ointment into the urethra and milk it down the length of his shaft.†   (source)
  • Since there was no liaison between the Brotherhood and the community leaders I assigned myself the task of creating one.†   (source)
  • This other one is Krupkin's liaison here in Moscow.†   (source)
  • It was then, in the second year of Jefferson's new administration, that the rumor hitherto only whispered, of a liaison between Jefferson and a slave woman, broke into print.†   (source)
  • Attolia's liaison explained that the main part of her forces would return to the bridge across the Seperchia and to their camp.†   (source)
  • News of the Kennedy-Monroe liaison would be about as explosive as it gets.†   (source)
  • We want you to be his liaison, Bubba.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, a sharp city reporter-youwho'd heard rumors of the liaison between Kwang and the bimbo, starts adding up the bodies.†   (source)
  • It was almost as if, facing off invariably at odds, they conducted a secret liaison, with their hands enwrapped under the table.†   (source)
  • And, as I said before, our short liaison was a long time ago.†   (source)
  • But business was cover for politics; liaison with Hong Kong had been thin.†   (source)
  • Martin will do anything for you, and he is my liaison in the blind.†   (source)
  • The only obstacle in the way of this union is that Francesca is Pasquale's mother—her illicit liaison with the good ex-Duke of Faggio being one reason Angelo had him poisoned to begin with.†   (source)
  • Larry's brief conference with me had been in the nature of an appeal on his part, an appeal to me to keep an eye on Nathan and to act as liaison between the Pink Palace and himself—to serve both as sentinel and as a kind of benign watchdog who might be able to gently nip at Nathan's heels and keep him under control.†   (source)
  • Our liaison section therefore arranged for us to enjoy facilities and communications and immunities which are at present denied to us.†   (source)
  • Lara saw, as in a mirror, herself and the whole story of her liaison.†   (source)
  • I'm posting you as liaison officer in U.S.S. Scorpion.†   (source)
  • She had never accepted his liaison — the "marriage of youth" — with Chani.†   (source)
  • "The family liaison officer was here this afternoon," he says.†   (source)
  • They surely would not approve of a liaison between their eldest daughter and their charlady's son.†   (source)
  • "Stabbed him," said the young police officer assigned as the family liaison.†   (source)
  • She turned toward our young liaison officer, who tried to hold his ground.†   (source)
  • I'm so glad the liaison officer has discovered your French and given you a job that makes use of it.†   (source)
  • I hoped never to be liaisoned again, with anyone, for any reason.†   (source)
  • Everyone's going to know by this afternoon that I'm your liaison on campus.†   (source)
  • Yet she was disciplined; all things considered, an estimable liaison to Carlos.†   (source)
  • Gospodin Minister for Professional Liaison, please address your comments through me.†   (source)
  • His value as a liaison officer was unsurpassed.†   (source)
  • Considering my own background, I'm your liaison; anything you want you relay through me.†   (source)
  • Do you know why the Commandant's Department wants you as Pearce's liaison?†   (source)
  • — clicked over to liaison with the platoons surrounding me: "Liaison flash!†   (source)
  • Dwight Towers went to it as captain of Scorpion and took his liaison officer with him.†   (source)
  • While she was occupied the captain drew his liaison officer to one side.†   (source)
  • This officer would be under the command of the Australian liaison officer in Scorpion.†   (source)
  • I'll be on board tomorrow morning, early," said the liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer asked the question that he had wanted to ask before.†   (source)
  • Then, since a copy had already gone to the Australians, he sent for his liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer studied the chart of the Pacific.†   (source)
  • There was no more to be said, and he dismissed his liaison officer.†   (source)
  • He's our new liaison officer," he told her.†   (source)
  • "How would you go?" the liaison officer asked at last.†   (source)
  • Would you like to stay on with her as liaison officer while that work is going on?†   (source)
  • In the line of duty, however, he felt that he would like to know more about the liaison officer.†   (source)
  • It may involve a few liaison duties with the dockyard.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer said, "But that must mean there's somebody alive up there.†   (source)
  • Level Four, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, incorporating Beast, Being and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liaison Office and Pest Advisory Bureau.†   (source)
  • From Goblin Liaison?†   (source)
  • And there was Dirk Cresswell in the year after her too — now Head of the Goblin Liaison Office, of course — another Muggle-born, a very gifted student, and still gives me excellent inside information on the goings-on at Gringotts!†   (source)
  • The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.†   (source)
  • …Fudge had appeared out of thin air in the cabinet room to inform the Prime Minister that there had been a spot of bother at the Kwidditch (or that was what it had sounded like) World Cup and that several Muggles had been "involved," but that the Prime Minister was not to worry, the fact that YouKnow-Who's Mark had been seen again meant nothing; Fudge was sure it was an isolated incident, and the Muggle Liaison Office was dealing with all memory modifications as they spoke.†   (source)
  • A disembodied female voice said, "Level four, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, incorporating Beast, Being, and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liaison Office, and Pest Advisory Bureau," and the grilles slid open again, admitting a couple of wizards and several pale violet paper airplanes that fluttered around the lamp in the ceiling of the lift.†   (source)
  • Though sexual liaisons were common, society tolerated them only as long as their details remained secret.†   (source)
  • At a table for two in the Boyarsky, the young liaison reviewed with the Count, quite unnecessarily, all the details of the evening: the timing (the doors were to be opened promptly at 9:00); the layout of the tables (a long U with twenty seats on either side and six at the head); the menu (Chef Zhukovsky's interpretation of a traditional Russian feast); the wine (a Ukrainian white); and the necessity of dousing the candles at exactly 10:59.†   (source)
  • Their identities shocked him: a United States Air Force colonel and a British Army colonel, both NATO liaisons, as well as two CIA officers, apparently acting as observers.†   (source)
  • Horace formed a kind of club of his favorites with himself at the center, making introductions, forging useful contacts between members, and always reaping some kind of benefit in return, whether a free box of his favorite crystallized pineapple or the chance to recommend the next junior member of the Goblin liaison Office.†   (source)
  • At official request, the dinner is to be held not in the Red Room but in suite 417, which Arkady has arranged to be free; Emile has just finalized the menu; and Alexander, who will be overseeing the dinner, has been working closely with comrade Propp, our liaison from the Kremlin, to ensure the evening runs smoothly.†   (source)
  • He flew into Washington and went directly to his primary liaison at the Agency, asking to be given everything there was on Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • There was an article about East German interference with the Bonn government's liaison office in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • I had been offered a job as a liaison between the Bureau and the D.C. police after the Soneji kidnapping case.†   (source)
  • Nurse Cramer had stopped speaking to Nurse Duckett, her best friend, because of her liaison with Yossarian, but still went everywhere with Nurse Duckett since Nurse Duckett was her best friend.†   (source)
  • That was how the Gentleman claimed he had "discovered" her; how he had chosen her to be his "liaison with the other citizens of the City of Angels."†   (source)
  • It turns out that while the newspapers were looking the other way, the FBI had been tracking JFK's liaisons since the late 1940s, because he was seeing a woman thought to be a spy for Nazi Germany.†   (source)
  • He was both senior commander of the Imperial Bodyguard and liaison to the military attachés from Britain, India, Belgium, and America, all of whom had a presence in Ethiopia.†   (source)
  • I answered the necessary questions without unnecessary verbiage, assured the liaison that we were prepared for the action, our special forces waiting for the word.†   (source)
  • A Medusan's instinct, and skeletal knowledge of an extraordinary liaison he has made, a contact so profitable to him and so dangerous it could have all of Hong Kong at war, the entire colony paralysed.†   (source)
  • And when he was finished with her, a child-siren who had elicited secrets from the Beijing hierarchy who demanded young girls — in the belief that such liaisons extended their lifespans — would disappear.†   (source)
  • A ministry had been whomped up for him: "Liaison for Arts, Sciences, and Professions"—buttonsorting.†   (source)
  • The liaison for Pearce.†   (source)
  • Make contact liaison with eight platoon leaders on my sides and corners, five of whom should already be in position (those from Fifth and First Regiments) and three (Khoroshen of the Blackguards and Bayonne and Sukarno of the Wolverines) who were now moving into position.†   (source)
  • No, I am his chief liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The number and influence of Soviet liaison officers were drastically reduced, several of the old guard were dismissed on ideological grounds and three men emerged: Fielder as head of counterintelligence, Jahn took over from Mundt as head of facilities, and Mundt himself got the plum—deputy director of operations—at the age of forty-one.†   (source)
  • As early as the spring of 1906-only a few months before she would begin her last year in the gymnasium-six months of Lara's liaison with Komarovsky had driven her beyond the limits of her endurance.†   (source)
  • In an open space outside his tent Kamennodvorsky, the chief liaison officer, was burning papers, discarded rubbish from General Kappel's records that had fallen into his hands, as well as papers from his own partisan flies.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer said, "It's going to boil down to a report on Honest John's radioactive readings."†   (source)
  • On the bridge the captain said to his liaison officer, "This report's going to be just a little difficult to write.†   (source)
  • The captain and the liaison officer had stood up at his sudden departure; they remained standing, and glanced at each other.†   (source)
  • Dwight glanced at his liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer shook his head.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer waited in the cabin while the captain rang the admiral's secretary in the Navy Department.†   (source)
  • The appointment that he had been offered was a new one; there had been no Australian liaison officer in Scorpion when she had made her South American cruise.†   (source)
  • John Osborne was waiting at the entrance to the trunk to run a Geiger counter over him and pass him as clean, and a minute later he was standing with a towel round his waist making his report to Dwight Towers in his cabin, the executive officer and the liaison officer beside him.†   (source)
  • That was where the liaison colonel came to visit me.†   (source)
  • I will send the liaison officer.†   (source)
  • The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He calls His "free" lovers and servants--"sons" is the word He uses, with His inveterate love of degrading the whole spiritual world by unnatural liaisons with the two-legged animals.†   (source)
  • The Prosecutor, who had been studying a document in front of him, asked her rather sharply when our "liaison" had begun.†   (source)
  • She must indeed have been agile and resourceful, for to carry on such a liaison undetected in that age and place must have been a problem.†   (source)
  • Coblin had fatherly fears of his own, but not Anna's rage against Kinsman, and he kept up the necessary liaison with him at his office, for of course the undertaker couldn't enter the house.†   (source)
  • Looking very grave, the Prosecutor drew himself up to his full height and, pointing at me, said in such a tone that I could have sworn he was genuinely moved, "Gentlemen of the jury, I would have you note that on the next day after his mother's funeral that man was visiting the swimming pool, starting a liaison with a girl, and going to see a comic film.†   (source)
  • The thin tunes, holding lost times and future hopes in liaison, twisted upon the Valais night.†   (source)
  • For some time George strove to keep the liaison a secret.†   (source)
  • You already know what she was, and how my liaison with her terminated.†   (source)
  • He insisted that the prince had nothing whatever to do with Nastasia Philipovna, so far as any liaison was concerned; and, if the truth were to be told about it, he added, never had had.†   (source)
  • She had got things nearly straight by the long years of scraping in little stations in Chitral and Burma—stations where living is cheap in comparison with the life of a county magnate, and where, moreover, liaisons of one sort or another are normal and inexpensive too.†   (source)
  • Martin struggled to make a liaison between them, and he had no elevating remarks about the strangeness of a man's boasting of his own crookedness, but he was coldly furious when Clif blundered: "You said old Gottlieb was sort of down on his luck now.†   (source)
  • But the drama culminated unforeseen and violent on their return, when I was impelled by my miserable flesh that still lives…Ah! what misery, what wretchedness is that of the man who is alone and disdains debasing liaisons!†   (source)
  • Simply mentioning such things causes our own expression to change, and we notice that, although thus far we may have spoken of such questionable liaisons in a light and jocular tone, we did it for the same mysterious reasons people usually speak of them in that fashion—not that it in any way proves the subject to be a matter of levity and jest.†   (source)
  • And once there and in the presence of the body along with Titus, Burton Burleigh, Heit and Earl Newcomb, he was able to decide for himself, even while Titus, half demented, gazed upon the features of his child, first that she truly was Roberta Alden and next as to whether he considered her of the type who would wantonly yield herself to such a liaison as the registration at Grass Lake seemed to indicate.†   (source)
  • "Of all the narrow-minded excuses," McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liaison with some one else, but without success.†   (source)
  • "And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart entirely; I have quite enough sins on my soul without putting dangerous, shallow epigrams into people's heads; I might cause a poor, inoffensive capitalist to have a vulgar liaison with a bomb, or get some innocent little Bolshevik tangled up with a machine-gun bullet—"†   (source)
  • Franz spoke in terms half of liaison officer, half of secretary, till his senior cut through him in mid-sentence.†   (source)
  • And I was quite right: depend on that: there are a thousand reasons why liaisons between governesses and tutors should never be tolerated a moment in any well-regulated house; firstly — " "Oh, gracious, mama!†   (source)
  • Drawn away by her liaison with Tholomyes to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her.†   (source)
  • She was vexed, too, that from all she could learn of this connection it was not that brilliant, graceful, worldly liaison which she would have welcomed, but a sort of Wertherish, desperate passion, so she was told, which might well lead him into imprudence.†   (source)
  • He sipped Madeira: built castles in the air: thought himself a fine fellow: felt himself much more in love with Jane than he had been any time these seven years, during which their liaison had lasted without the slightest impatience on Pitt's part—and slept a good deal.†   (source)
  • Vronsky's mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,—at least according to the Countess Vronskaya's ideas.†   (source)
  • "Liaison?" he suggested helpfully.†   (source)
  • That made it sound like I was sneaking around having illicit sexual liaisons with voluptuous Italian women.†   (source)
  • It is found again in /a tall/, a liaison form of /at all/.†   (source)
  • has as good a /liaison/ as the French /vois avez/.†   (source)
  • …and they got on fairly well together for the sake of argument, when, neglecting her duties, she chose to be tired of wedded life and was on for a little flutter in polite debauchery to press their attentions on her with improper intent, the upshot being that her affections centred on another, the cause of many liaisons between still attractive married women getting on for fair and forty and younger men, no doubt as several famous cases of feminine infatuation proved up to the hilt.†   (source)
  • …when the husband frequently, after some words passed between the two concerning her relations with the other lucky mortal (he having had the pair watched), inflicted fatal injuries on his adored one as a result of an alternative postnuptial liaison by plunging his knife into her, until it just struck him that Fitz, nicknamed Skin-the-Goat, merely drove the car for the actual perpetrators of the outrage and so was not, if he was reliably informed, actually party to the ambush which, in…†   (source)
  • "Like the French," he says, "we have a marked /liaison/—the borrowing of a letter from the preceding word.†   (source)
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