Word: leak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets...
...Leak-a lot of baseball clubs. What Brooklyn's still...
Washington politicos began to ask: "What is Harold up to?" They got a partial answer. Stories began to leak out of Washington of a midnight meeting between Stassen and Taft. Before Stassen had made up his mind to enter the Ohio primary, Taft had paid a call at Stassen's Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront...
Among the FORUM'S few photographs of actual buildings were shots of Taliesin West, Wright's winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...