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Word: reinterment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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With speed and resolution that were conspicuously lacking when they popped the closet eleven years ago, Her Majesty's government moved last week to reinter Britain's Public Skeletons 1 and 2: Donald Duart Maclean, now 48, and Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 51, the blue-eyed Foreign Office homosexuals whose 1951 elopement to the Soviet Union prompted one of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson's rare outbursts. Said he: "My God, Maclean knew everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: End of the Affair? | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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