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Beta / Β β / bā·də / noun
1. second letter of the Greek alphabet
2. second of a series
3. test of a system
Also:
Games development and testing has alpha and beta stages. Beta is close to final development—many times with an open call for players to try it out and identify issues
Hebrew/Phoenician (beth).
Part Two – The Execution; Chapter Eleven - The Soft Life
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It was inevitable that Captain Troop's duties would bring him into conflict with most of the organization, but it was particularly unfortunate that M could think of no one but Troop to spare as Chairman for this particular Committee.
For this was yet one more of those Committees of Inquiry dealing with the delicate intricacies of the Burgess and Maclean case, and with the lessons that could be learned from it. M had dreamed it up, five years after he had closed his own particular file on that case, purely as a sop to the Privy Council Inquiry into the Security Services which the Prime Minister had ordered in 1955.
At once Bond had got into a hopeless wrangle with Troop over the employment of 'intellectuals' in the Secret Service.
Perversely, and knowing it would annoy, Bond had put forward the proposition that, if M.I.5 and the Secret Service were to concern themselves seriously with the atom age 'intellectual spy', they must employ a certain number of intellectuals to counter them. 'Retired officers of the Indian Army,' Bond had pronounced, `can't possibly understand the thought processes of a Burgess or a Maclean. They won't even know such people exist---let alone be in a position to frequent their cliques and get to know their friends and their secrets. Once Burgess and Maclean went to Russia, the only way to make contact with them again and, perhaps, when they got tired of Russia, turn them into double agents against the Russians, would have been to send their closest friends to Moscow and Prague and Budapest with orders to wait until one of these chaps crept out of the masonry and made contact. And one of them, probably Burgess, would have been driven to make contact by his loneliness and by his ache to tell his story to someone. [Note: *Written in March 1956. I. F.] But they certainly wouldn't take the risk of revealing themselves to someone with a trench-coat and a cavalry moustache and a beta minus mind.'
Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), aka the betta. Self-explanatory.
Lucy Bentancourt, crowd hair supervisor: Mexico (as Lucy Betancourt).
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Notice I was careful to match the red Alfa Romeo, but steamrolled past the misapplied location.
IMCDB makes these things almost failsafe with an onscreen callout overlaying the image.
Almost.
1. fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
2. fourth in a series
3. fourth (or fourth-brightest) star in a constellation.
4. phonetic code for the letter D
5. mathematic variable, function, or defined increment
6. triangle-shaped land mass formed by sediment deposits at a river’s start; originally referred to the Delta, meaning of the Nile River, 16th Century
Middle English (deltha). Greek (delta). Semitic, Hebrew (dāleth, daleth).