Word: leak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counter-Leaks. The Secretary neglected his usual polite greeting when he faced the press, bluntly began: "I am having this conference . . . at the request and at the direction of the President." The precipitate performance on the Formosa question, as he explained it, had been necessary because "this subject has become one of the foremost subjects of discussion throughout the country . . . We have had leak and counter-leak, gossip and counter-gossip . . . and therefore it was the President's desire to clarify the situation...