Word: letter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
...edge of mutiny, the Red commander capitulated, marched out of the valley at the head of his unarmed troops. When he was searched, the Red leader angrily cried that it was an "un-Buddhist" action. It was also a valuable one, for on his person was found a letter from Red Prince Souphanouvong ordering him not to accept integration until after the next general election...
...years brokerage houses avoided the funds like the plague, fearful that they would hurt regular brokerage business. But most of them have come around. Main holdout: Manhattan's huge Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, which has never even deigned to mention the funds' existence in its financial letter...
...Harry Dexter White was not released to the press until just before Brownell's speech. Then, after Truman had been forced to make a hasty denial in order to get onto the same front page with Brownell's charge, James Hagerty turned up (within hours) a six-year-old letter in which Truman had praised White. The episode, which Cater characterizes as "a distasteful case study in the misuse of publicity," ended by McCarthy's being given free radio and television time ostensibly to answer Truman, but in fact to attack Eisenhower...
...Fourth Branch of Government is a critique, not a cure. The author argues that the old rule of objectivity has long since become a dead letter and would not be viable even if it could be revived. Nor is the shibboleth of "equal time, equal space" for conflicting views an adequate yardstick. What Cater asks is greater awareness within the press corps of the enormous power it holds and of the manifold ways in which that power and its holders can be used. The mechanical pitfalls in the way of commuting the "truth" from Washington to the reader who moves...