Word: enigma
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Russia's present concern over internal affairs and the resulting let-up in outside Communist aggression also set the enigma of continued NATO expenses before the leaders. Britain feels that the benefits of relaxing NATO would mean a more solid economic situation in Westeran Europe...
Mulvihill was an enigma. During his long term as president be had absolute power. Many in the H.U.E.R.A. felt his methods were high-handed and that he lacked sincere interest in the union. Last fall, a group breaded by McNamara and Malinckrodt watchman Kenneth Slocum started to investigate the financial records, which Mulvihill always kept to himself. They made no statements or accusations, merely decided that Mulvihill...
...production called The Lost Child (Maude's mother, Annie Adams Kiskadden, was the leading lady). By the time she was 16, famed New York Producer Charles Frohman became Maude's mentor and manager. He helped create the shy, veiled creature whose personal life was an enigma. Frohman's order: "You are not to be interviewed. You are not to be quoted . . . People will wonder at you, yearn for the details of your private life . . . Let them. It will only spur their interest and desire...
...shuck the attitude that America Equals Perfection, it is psychological warfare. Aimed as it is at people who hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence. Catholic missionaries in China paint their cherubs with yellow skins, Communist propaganda plays on Asian love of independence...
Ever since Joseph Stalin abolished the Politburo last October, the mystery inside an enigma (as Churchill once called it) of the Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...