Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wharton-Fullerton correspondence makes this book more than simply a companion to R.W.B. Lewis' Pulitzer-prizewinning Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975). Her affair with the journalist was no secret to intimate friends or later biographers, but her private responses to it were. And the dignified vulnerability she displayed during this period softens the austere image she cultivated during her 75 years. The regal bearing and the profile with its generous, slightly prognathous jaw remain intact. It is now possible to see with what effort, and after what struggles, she held her head so high...
...After secret meetings mediated by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, on Governors Island in New York harbor, the three nations announced they had signed a document outlining the "principles" under which Cuban and South African troops would be withdrawn from Angola and under which the territory of Namibia, which South Africa controls in defiance of United Nations resolutions, would gain its independence...
...skills" with officials of the Polish government not only to steal a highly sophisticated machine developed by the Germans but also to figure out how to use it. Considered the greatest and most spectacular espionage achievement of the war, her action enabled the British to read Hitler's most secret messages and orders to Nazi generals before even they had seen them...
...mood clings long to Reagan. Perhaps that is the secret of his durability in the presidency. By Thursday he was with Candidate George Bush and their respective political teams in a powwow in the White House Family Dining Room. The juices of one of the most successful campaigners of modern times were plainly undiminished by the week's grim tidings...
...gave to the New York City-based Wedtech Corp., which helped the company win a $32 million Government contract; a financial partnership that Meese had with W. Franklyn Chinn, in which the Attorney General earned an 80% profit in 18 months; and his connection to a plan to make secret payments to Israeli officials in return for their promise not to disrupt a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline...