Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obviously willing to rattle any skeleton in the Truman closet to divert public attention from a snafu in supply. Sample Reeder rattles: 1) When Korea began, "we thought, and many responsible people said, that it was just a police action"; 2) ammunition stocks are low partly because of the "atmosphere of economy" enforced by onetime (1949-50) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...
...devout apostle of protection, Edwin Mosler has a safe in every room, and another in almost every closet of his summer home at Deal, NJ. and his Manhattan apartment. "Better safe than sorry," he tells visitors with a grin. However, he candidly admits "no safe is completely safe. Anything one man makes, another can break...
...went over together," Wagner said, "and asked the janitor to open the closet. We took out the box, and jammed between two change tills was a roll of $150 worth of $10 and $5 bills...
...yesterday morning, they gave up the search. The red ticket box was placed in a closet by the janitor, and the closet locked...
Sixteen months ago, New York's Democratic Congressman Louis B. Heller began looking for skeletons in SEC's closet. Last week, after poring over 742 cases from SEC's files and calling 100 witnesses, Heller's subcommittee handed in its report. In general, it said, SEC had done "a commendable job." But in its rummaging, the committee rattled the bones of several controversial cases, said the incoming Congress should investigate further. Among the cases...