Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have, right here, one of the grossest examples of social distinction still active at the collegiate level. The final clubs, dating from the 1870s, have carved out a place for elitism beyond the norm even at Harvard. Santayana called the system "the secret society...to which everybody of consequence belonged...
...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...
...Three large, hairy and somewhat inebriated guys wearing "Harvard: The Northeastern of Cambridge" shirts ask me if they can "borrow" my identification. I give them my outdated Boston Public Library card and tell them that the secret code word is "Zeek...
...like my own. When I landed in my pink space ball, the sunset lighted up tall nonnatural structures that resembled the state housing collectives back home. I've gone through your papers and read all about the two-headed Abominable Snowmen and the psychic cures for arthritis -- Oh, the secret balsam-water diet that lets you lose 40 lbs. in two days and prevents tooth decay? Leonid wants me to bring the details back...
...secret trials began on May 24 in San Francisco. For three weeks, patients received infusions of Compound Q, some as high as 17 times the dosage given patients in the San Francisco General Hospital toxicity trials. For the first 48 hours, the carefully monitored volunteers suffered side effects of sore muscles, nausea, fever and fatigue. The side effects eventually went away, and many patients, including Bob Barnett, began to feel more energetic...