Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLORED STRIPES on taxpayers' envelopes, which the Bureau of Internal Revenue hoped would make it easier for clerks to classify returns, will be discontinued after this year. The red and yellow stripes, which reveal whether a person makes less (red) or more (yellow) than $10,000 a year, brought a flood of protests from privacy-conscious taxpayers...
...nature of this case does not dictate a leave nor a relief from teaching duties . . .", the Sun said. "The desire to satisfy certain pressure groups often influences the University's decisions; we hope that this was not the factor in the matter. To allay doubts, the University should reveal its motives...
...Cabot, amid cries of "My steady won't come if I ask stags," students over whelmingly vetoed the "stag" proposal by a vote of 104 to four. Moors social chairmen were instructed not to reveal the majority by which Moors residents turned down the proposal...
Blunt Hint. Before a military court of inquiry, Dides at first stuck to his refusal to reveal his source. But after a second grilling, he revealed that he got the papers from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...together by taking one apart. But dissection of the dead has always filled nonmedical men with horror. Popes and emperors have forbidden it. Such great artist-anatomists as Da Vinci and Vesalius had to cut through layers of superstition and prejudice before they could use the dead to reveal the secrets of life. Ghouls such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language. Even today, in some Southern states, mothers threaten naughty children with "the night doctor will get you"-a reference...