Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mills had no secret formula. Everything he worked out could be discovered by an alert coach. He had what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...
Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
...until Herr Hitler arrived back in Berlin that Germans knew he had been away. The trip was entirely secret. All the time he was absent his guard of honor stood before the Chancellery, and his personal pennant, which flies only when he is in Berlin, was left...
...turn of the last century, France had as anticlerical a Government as ever hated & feared the Pope. French lawmakers bundled up their prejudices in a Laic Law which, among other things, required State authorization for religious orders. When France went to war in 1914, thousands of members of secret, mufti-wearing orders emerged from their bolt-holes to serve la patrie. The number of aumôniers (chaplains) in the French forces was limited-400 in the army, 50 in the navy, none in the air force. Most priests were assigned to noncombatant duties. A few had anticlerical officers...
...Roosevelt's first steps would have to be taken along secret diplomatic channels. He would have to ascertain in advance that there is some common ground for a settlement. Should either side by any chance or for any reason refuse his offer, hatreds in Europe and America would flame only the more hotly...