Through that connection, Marlinspike wangled a meeting with WhatsApp's cofounder Brian Acton.
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President Trump's administration was quick to crow about trade concessions wangled from Beijing.
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When he was sixteen, he had wangled a pass to the studio, through a family friend.
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Legendre's social connections had wangled her a secretarial role in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
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Mr Carreyrou says the board had been set to sack Ms Holmes in 2008, but she wangled another chance.
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One official did not have military service, so he wangled an appointment as a captain in the auxiliary police.
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I was sent down to cover it, and wangled a chance to jog with Ali in the traditional predawn training regimen.
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And Begbie (Robert Carlyle) — whose drug of choice has always been violence — has just wangled an appropriately bloody escape from prison.
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She wrote to the only drama school she'd ever heard of, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and wangled herself a scholarship.
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The monastery's prime minister was keen to learn Hindi, so Ugyen Gyatso, promising that Das was a fine tutor, wangled a passport for him.
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In 1972, after only six months with the network, Bolen wangled an interview for the post of daytime director; which had suddenly become vacant.
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After the war, American friends arranged a view camera for her via the United States military, and she wangled rare permission to photograph the ruins.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he and Sam Nunn, a centrist Democratic senator, wangled some funds from Congress to dismantle weapons of mass destruction.
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He wangled the financing from an Italian television station, left for London in 1955 and began filming performances by the jazz traditionalist Chris Barber at the Royal Festival Hall.
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I had left the Army to finish college, and then pursued pre-med studies, but Fulro's mystery called, and I wangled a press card as a stringer for Harpers.
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I've wangled 15 precisely timed minutes with the Michelin-starred French chef during his stint cooking two banquets at Wilderness Festival, a four-day arts event in the Oxfordshire countryside.
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He wangled a visit to the set of a music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson , and worked briefly as Fred Armisen's driver during the production of a short film.
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Obama accompanied that giveaway with a payout to the Tehran regime of $1.7 billion, wangled by way of a "settlement" of decades-old claims and shipped secretly to Iran in cash.
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He wangled some $70 million from the federal budget for a museum called the Steamtown National Historic Site at an abandoned rail yard in Scranton, a tourist attraction that the National Park Service never requested.
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The one element of his life that sparkles, at least intermittently, is that he has wangled his way into a job with West Berlin's celebrity architect and theorist, the gaudily named N. I. Rosen-Montag.
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Usually the dinner passes in a flurry of photos and articles about who wore what, which celebrity sat at which publication's table and a recounting of the hokey jokes told by whichever safe comedian they wangled into hosting.
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Mr. Price was so interested in Republican politics that he wangled a seat with the Michigan delegation to the party's 1948 national convention in Philadelphia, to show support for the presidential candidacy of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan.
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As an assistant to the director Herman Shumlin in the 1950s, she wangled an audition for an unknown actor who had impressed her in a play titled "See the Jaguar," which lasted only five performances at the Cort Theater in 1952.
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Yet he took on Mr. Wagstaffe, and, in his early 80s, climbed stairs and knocked on doors in East New York hunting for witnesses; he wrote volumes of motions and letters; he wangled expert help from legal colleagues who could not turn him down.
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He was staying in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and a local man who had helped him rent an old Soviet truck to explore the desert told him some Westerners were arriving to go on a dig, so he wangled his way onto one of the trucks.
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The villain here was another Austrian émigré, Bruno Bettelheim, who, on the strength of a doctorate in art history and supersized intellectual chutzpah, had wangled Ford Foundation funding for his research and a prominent position as a child psychologist at the University of Chicago.
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Sarawak's state election on May 7th is a chance for voters to rebuke Najib Razak, Malaysia's unpopular prime minister, who has spent much of the past year denying that hundreds of millions of dollars which entered his bank accounts were wangled from an ailing national investment firm.
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Inheriting a windfall $21975 billion capital program wangled from the State Legislature by his predecessor at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Richard Ravitch, Mr. Kiley presided over the replacement of hundreds of decrepit subway cars and buses, modernized stations, and improved on-time performance in a system that had been woefully neglected.
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Mr. Howe, who had pleaded guilty to eight felonies and was cooperating with prosecutors, described how Mr. Percoco helped COR Development, the Syracuse company that employed Mr. Aiello and Mr. Gerardi, evade a costly union requirement on a development, and wangled a pay raise for Mr. Aiello's son, who worked in state government.
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During World War I, Allen "wangled himself a commission" in the US Army.
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While flying reconnaissance flights in the Finnish Civil War, he used the nom de guerre Mikko Vuorenheimo. However, by Summer 1918, the distrustful Finns had not kept their bargain, so Safonov wangled the permits needed to transit German-occupied Russia and join the White Russians' Volunteer Army.
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Soulier managed to join the artillery in March 1915, but then wangled a transfer to aviation. He began aviation training at Pau in March 1916, and was brevetted a pilot two months later. He was posted to Escadrille 26 under command of Commandant Brocard in June 1916.
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Sometime during this period, Windisch wangled flying time in a captured Spad VII. It is unknown if he flew it in combat. He scored his first win with his new squadron on 15 March 1918. He had six victories in that month, including a triple on 24 March 1918.
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Selvin was born in Berkeley, California. He has stated that he failed to graduate with his Berkeley High School class of 1967. He moved to San Francisco and was hired as a copy boy at the San Francisco Chronicle. Selvin soon wangled a backstage pass for a show at The Fillmore and submitted his first piece to the Chronicle's Sunday Datebook in 1969.MorningForum.com.
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He was granted a trip to Tangiers in Spanish Morocco for Christmas and New Year's leave. While there he was arrested by the authorities for taking pictures near a Spanish Navy facility and released a short time later. He travelled to Gibraltar where he wangled trips on flying boats from No. 202 Squadron RAF which was monitoring German and Vichy French shipping sailing between eastern Spanish ports and Italy. MacLachlan returned to Malta on a Short Sunderland on 5 January 1941.
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Croddy, 2001, p138.Awards to Inventors, 1922, p20 Reflecting on the incident, Livens and Strange considered how a really large shell filled with fuel might be thrown by a mortar.Awards to Inventors, 1922, p30 Livens went on to develop a large, simple mortar that could throw a three-gallon drum of oil which would burst when it landed, spreading burning oil over the target. Livens came to the attention of General Hubert Gough who was impressed by his ideas and "wangled" everything that Livens needed for his large projector.
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USS Williamsburg with President Truman (1946) Allen "wangled himself" onto the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia (1933-8, 1939–40) and treasurer and then secretary of the Democratic National Committee. In 1943, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. On behalf of the Red Cross, Allen made a number of trips to England and Europe where, in the 1940s, he and Dwight D. Eisenhower developed a friendship that grew over the ensuing years. Allen also served as a director of the War Damage Corporation, a government effort to provide insurance against war-related damage.
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The Walrus and the Terrier - programme outline In 1965, Cameron wangled his way into North Vietnam for interviews and photos (with photographer Romano Cagnoni) of Ho Chi Minh and other top leaders. His book Here Is Your Enemy was published in the United States, and his five-part series on North Vietnam was published in December 1965 in The New York Times, where it was edited by journalist Anthony Lewis. Cameron also did illustration work, especially in his early career. Working in Scotland for D. C. Thomson, he prepared drawings for sensationalist items in Thomson's publications.
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In 2010 Graves acquired a video set of the 12 acrimonious debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. that aired on television in 1968 as a part of the ABC network's Presidential convention coverage. Graves had over several decades attempted to acquire the videos from ABC which consistently turned him down. Graves had wanted to write about the debates ever since he was a freshman in college and had never let the idea slip away. He learned that an associate of Vidal's had wangled a set of the tapes from ABC, but they were to be exclusively for Vidal's usage.
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Kanin longed to move to Los Angeles to get into pictures and her parents indulged her. Her father moved to California first to secure a job, then she and her mother packed everything and followed by train.Acker. 1991. Kanin spent her senior year at the University of Southern California where she became active in college radio. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, she wangled an interview with Sam Marx who thought she was much too young to hire; but her next interview was with story editor Bob Sparks at RKO who sent her to producer Al Lewis, who then hired her as a story editor at $75 a week.
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When not writing about Holmes, Leavitt chose the company of friends like fellow Baker Street Irregulars Christopher Morley and Elmer Davis,Don't Let Them Scare You: The Life and Times of Elmer Davis, by Roger Burlingame, published by Lippincott, 1961, p.10 as well as other writers, reporters, advertising men and artists of the day. Leavitt had one brother, Russell Greenleaf Leavitt, who graduated from Harvard College in 1917, and who subsequently received a deferment from the military for poor eyesight. But Russell Leavitt joined the U.S. Navy and eventually wangled an assignment driving an ambulance for the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps during the First World War.
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By May 1916, Böhme was already a veteran of aerial warfare; he had flown numerous barrage, defensive patrols and bombing missions. He was promoted to Leutnant der Reserve (lieutenant of reserves) in this same month. On 20 May, he wangled an aircraft ride to drop in on the director of Hubertus Mills, to help celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary. On this trip, he met the director's eldest daughter and began a correspondence with her that led to their engagement in October 1917. Their letters became the basis for a posthumous book, Briefe eines deutschen Kampffliegers an ein junges Mädchen (Letters of a German Combat Pilot to a Young Girl), published in 1930.
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In 1840 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an honorary member. There is a tradition that when Dickens visited Boston, a line of New England portraitists was already fawning on shore, hoping to be the first to capture the great novelist's image on canvas. But Francis Alexander reached the writer well ahead of his peers—by traveling in a small advance boat to greet Dickens as his vessel entered the harbor. American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (whom Alexander also painted) would later coin the verb Alexandered (as in, wangled), sniffing that such and such a person had Alexandered his way into a highly coveted invitation to a party.
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Attempting to appease her wounded ego, Albinus convinces her to take a holiday to the south in the new car he has bought for her. Rex refuses to be left behind, and by this point has wangled his way into Albinus' confidence as a fellow artist (including convincing Albinus that he could not possibly be interested in Margot as he poses himself as homosexual): he presents himself as the ideal chauffeur for their trip, given that Albinus can barely drive. Rex and Margot's trysts have become increasingly brazen, and the holiday seems an opportunity to further deepen their affair on Albinus' payroll. The holiday didn't quite go as Margot and Rex planned, since rendezvouses were next to impossible without arousing suspicion.
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Awards to Inventors, 1922, p.20 Reflecting on the incident, Livens and Strange considered how a really large shell filled with fuel might be thrown.Awards to Inventors, 1922, p.30 Although the key idea of throwing a large container of oil was due to Strange, it was Livens who went on to develop a large, but simple, mortar that could throw a three-gallon drum of oil which would burst when it landed... Livens' new weapon was used for the first time on the morning of 23 July 1916: twenty oil projectors were fired just before an attack in the battle of the Somme at Pozières – the effect was limited. Next, thirty projectors were fired at the eastern corner of High Wood on 18 August with more encouraging results and another attack on 3 September was highly successful. Following these attacks, Livens came to the attention of General Gough who was impressed by his ideas and "wangled" everything that he needed.
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As it was an enlisted man's medal, he had been nominated for it before he was commissioned an officer. The belated award made him the only airman in the war to win both classes of the medal. With the several other distinguished medals that had been awarded to him, he was one of the most highly decorated aces in the entire German air service, second only to Manfred von RichthofenAbove the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918, p. 170 However, by October, Müller was at odds with his commanding officer, Emil Thuy, and desired a change.Jagdstaffel 2 Boelcke: Von Richthofen's Mentor, p. 76 With the death of his friend Heinrich Gontermann in late October, Müller was second only to Manfred von Richthofen as the highest scoring ace still at the front.Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces, p. 48. Müller wangled a transfer back to Jagdstaffel 2 on 3 November 1917, rejoining his old friend, commanding officer Erwin Böhme. Müller shot down victim number 30 on 6 November. On 11 November 1917, Müller shot down future ace Captain Arthur Claydon of No. 32 Squadron RFC as his 31st victim.
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