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Usage examples of operator.

Billy Anker mistrusted the shadow operators though he never would say why.

If Arra was right and the next opening of the gate would release more shadows into the world, Lee needed to be as far from the gate as possible-not standing underneath it chatting to the boom operator while Peter went over the reactions he wanted with Laura.

Private investigators, shady operators like the Boston realtor and the Campbell who had listed Auk House for sale or rent.

Somewhat rudely pushing the azimuth operator aside, Corporal Hart examined the glowing images on the display tube with the utmost care.

The azimuth screen was equally empty, its operator equally intent, having wholly forgotten sick mother, errant boy friend, and laddered stockings as she stared at the screen in front of her.

Room, Beery was standing at a telephone, jiggling the hook up and down savagely, yelling at the operator to trace the call.

The sun had hardly set on the twenty-sixth of November before the bogies began to appear around the edges of the scopes, many more of them than the radar operators remembered having seen before.

John Bonano, a telephone company executive, of his brief experience as an operator providing directory assistance.

The reactor operator, an aggressive first-class petty officer named Manderson, acknowledged and flipped each reactor main coolant pump T-switch on the lower reactor control panel to the slow speed position, then pulled each switch upward.

Father John told the operator to get a couple of cars--BIA, sheriff, somebody-out to the Cooley ranch fast.

Suppose that the cryptanalyst obtains the plaintext of a given cryptogram, perhaps through theft or the error of a radio operator.

Marn in force at eleven this morning, a party of myself, two female retriever operators, two retrievers and three armed guardsmen Van Deef hired to protect us.

Permanent cadre are Ks deniable operators on a salaried retainer not freelancers like me, called on to carry out shit jobs that no one else wants.

I knew from the look in his eyes that I was still lowlife, a K spy, a deniable operator carrying out shit jobs that no one else wanted to do.

Hundreds of thousands of technologically-savvy operators have joined the market in the last two years, as the dotcom bubble burst.