Word: leak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen on Hollywood: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; on broadcasting: "The scales have not been invented fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio"; on studio audiences: "When I look at them, I think there must be a slow leak in Iowa...
...turn away 40 others for lack of space. The line for the 10:30 a.m. conference began forming at 7:50 a.m., when Newman Wright of the Passaic, N.J. Herald-News arrived. Under rules set by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to prevent any leak before the conference ended, the Secret Service men frisked some women's large handbags for signaling devices. As an extra precaution, while the conference was on, they emptied the telephone booths in the corridor outside the room; legmen assigned to hold telephones had to wait outside the booths...
India's leader, it turned out, also had some reservations about Khrushchev and Bulganin and their performance while in India. But Nehru was considerably less outspoken about this. He sent his Cabinet a formal note (allowed to leak to the press) describing the Russians' anti-Western speeches as embarrassing, especially in view of India's position of neutrality between the Western and Soviet blocs. But they were guests, the Prime Minister explained, and could have been silenced only with "great difficulty...
...Robert Porter, general counsel and secretary of Charles Pfizer Company, manufacturing chemists, testified that his company had hired Broady to find out how the secret formula of a new drug (Tetracycline) had leaked to competitors. (Earlier this year Pfizer sued Bristol Laboratories, E. R. Squibb & Son and the Upjohn Co. for $50 million, charging infringement of patents.) Pfizer, Porter testified, had paid Broady to shadow 50 of its employees. Broady also tapped the telephones of Squibb and Bristol-Myers on his own initiative, but found no leak...
Heinemann was horrified and mystified when his telephoned trade secrets and sales tip-offs began to leak like a faucet...