Word: leak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. There was a roar of good, natural laughter when the President expressed the modest certainty that the State Department would not ignore the suggestions of his brother Milton, after his five-week goodwill trip through Latin America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin's contention that Eisenhower had agreed to 19 specific changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, and then run out on his word...
Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...
...Durkin said, that the leak would make no difference in his attitude...
...were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu. Since Communist China did not officially take part in the Korean war, explained Burchett suavely...
...proposal was still officially secret, but last week some details began to leak out. The U.N. no longer insists that all North Korean prisoners who refuse to go home must be released as soon as an armistice is signed, but the new plan still guarantees that no prisoner will be forced home against his will...