Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University has since contended that the master plan only covered on-campus development and has pointed to its policy of keeping real estate transactions secret until they are completed...
Dalton also has tried to bring some psychological drama back to the role. His Bond, balancing on the edge of sanity, is still haunted by the death of his wife. And the attack on Felix pushes him almost over the edge. He drops his Secret Service duties and embarks on a murderous hunt for Sanchez...
...authorized repair. American officials were afraid the KGB had installed this circuit board to reroute uncoded U.S. message traffic. But the device was tested by NSA experts, who found that it did nothing improper. Security officials later discovered that some State % Department technicians had never been told about the secret tagging program and had not used the spray...
...pointing the march back into the mountains, on steep, thickly wooded tracks, thirsty and quarrelsome, they came upon an emerald pool in the forest, a sweet, shaded secret. Toad drank water for half an hour without stopping. That night they slaughtered a goat and feasted. Lutupen hung the remaining goat meat in a tree above him as he slept curled up on a flat rock, and in the morning Toad found leopard tracks around the camp...
...colonialism and mass migrations. Of London in the 1950s he says, "I had found myself at the beginning of a great movement of peoples after the war, a great shaking up of the world, a great shaking up of old cultures and old ideas." In his new novel My Secret History, Paul Theroux offers an affectionate and accurate sketch of his friend and mentor. The character's name is S. Prasad, but the facts and mannerisms are V.S. Naipaul's: "He was an unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house...