Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue admitted that such transactions were legal and that the number of people who had taken advantage of them was "way up in the thousands." It hoped before long to find some way to plug the leak of U.S. tax revenue...
...vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...
...Vodka. The leak of Cheke's trade secrets made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning...
...sudden grimness developed at Peiping, now in its 30th day of siege, but the form it took cannot be divulged. The censor is obdurate. He is not convinced that the facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
...Oscar Widmer, U.S. Weather Observer in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was sure that he could report a record 48-hour rainfall. But when he checked his rain gauge he found it contained only an inch of water: it had sprung a leak...