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Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty of selling U. S. military secretes to Israel

That sounds odd to a British ear. He would certainly be guilty of the selling of secrets, but he would plead guilty to the charge.

He had that Waldheimer’s disease, where you can’t remember what you were doing between ‘39 and ‘45.

Sounds odd to this USn ear, too.

Edit:  Selling secretes sounds a little odd, too.

I worked with a dink in 1970. FWIW, I remember calling him that at the time.  If I that’s a false memory, a distinct possibility, I also remember referring to him as such in the ‘70s.  Certainly not proof of anything but worth research by someone capable of such a task.

October: ... Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner bobbles a routine ground ball in Game Six of the World Series against the New York Mets, allowing the Mets to survive and eventually win the championship.

A bobble is when a fielder tries repeatedly to securely grip the ball but Buckner never touched it.  It went right through the wickets.

There’s a wicket in baseball? Or is this figurative?

long-con artist L. Ron Hubbard

what’s a long-con artist?

A long-con is a con that is, well, long: one that takes months or even years to pay off.

A long-con artist is someone who practices such cons.

Thanks for the corrections, all.

There’s a wicket in baseball? Or is this figurative?

It’s figurative; the ball went between Buckner’s legs.

the ball went between Buckner’s legs.

The high point of my twenty-three-year career as a New Yorker.  What a night that was!

Yes, I was the brigade duty officer, stationed in Germany, watching it when the ball went through Buckner’s legs at around 4 am. Had I not been on duty, I most certainly would not have been watching it. Probably the only time I was happy to have been on duty.

The ball in question sold for a tidy $418,250 at an auction last month.. (It’s passed through many hands since a far-thinking umpire picked it up after the game, two of those hands attached to ol’ Tiger Blood himself, Charlie Sheen).