Sentence examples similar to war contacts from inspiring English sources

Back in the cold war, contacting a secret agent in Moscow or Beijing was a dangerous, labour-intensive process that could take days or even weeks.

They never said to me, 'Will you please pass some money from Sam to Jane?,' or 'Would you please call up So-and-So and arrange an appointment?' " Given what's known about the C.I.A.'s funding of the magazine Encounter, for example, few people would be surprised to learn of another Cold War contact between American intelligence and an American cultural body.

In the early years of the war, contact with the government in exile was difficult to establish.

These pre-war contacts effectively set up a network which the German foreign office tapped into as war began in Europe.

"At a time when the contemporary world of art had evolved into abstract expressionism, which was a very elitist form of art, paint by number gave the populace their first real post-war contact with imagery that they could relate to".

Catherine Taber, the voice of Padme in the Clone Wars contacted her, celebrating her difference.

A key crew member from the original Star Wars, contacted to see if there was indeed a link between the building and the tank-like vehicle, conceded that they did look "kind of similar".

William Legge, who had served with Massie in the Bishops' Wars, contacted him and asked him to "surrender Gloucester to his lawful sovereign".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in Britain that monitors the war through contacts on the ground, put the Russian death toll at nine.

James Dao is an editor of At War. Contact him via his Times Topics page.

While serving in the Korean war, he contacted tuberculosis and had a lung removed.