Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Convert. Various tatters in the blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore...
...There are several other deals cooking," said Harve last week, "but I'm not at liberty to reveal them." As for Hollywood: "I don't want to go to them, but if they come knocking, I'll open the door." Before week's end a representative of an independent Hollywood producer came knocking. Mother opened the door. When the representative left, Harve had a movie contract...
...mine. The Minister of Labour must answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking...
...course, and it is Tom Matthews' job to see that they do. His staff is familiar with patient memos which begin: "The Managing Editor views with alarm the following: 1) common misspellings (harrassed for harassed, etc.); 2) the use of retain for keep, slew for killed, reveal for anything less than the revelations of William Blake or Moses...
...behind the barred windows, only the prisoners and the guards knew, and the guards spoke only to one another. The situation, to outsiders, was as full of intrigue as a paper-bound detective novel, and when prisoners left Lichfield, they departed in closely-guarded groups, with no chance to reveal what had happened inside the iron bars...