Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lean in close, conspiratorially, Sonia Ho may just let slip a secret she keeps about her son David. She will speak in a hush, as if to elude some spy's eavesdropping from behind the potted palm. But she badly wants to divulge her information. Thus, slightly abashed but nonetheless proud, she will confide, "He's kind of a genius, you know. I'm not supposed to say that, but it's true...
...young man came to trial for shooting another young man to death after a taping of the Jenny Jones Show. The topic of the show was secret admirers, and the guest, misled to assume that his admirer was a woman, discovered in front of the live audience that it was not. Humiliated and apparently deranged, he later shot the admirer. On the witness stand the opaque Ms. Jones told the jury that she had no idea how her show was produced but was certain they had done nothing wrong...
...Lebanese Hizballah. The alleged Shi'ite driver of the truck used in the bombing is in custody. The bombmaker, a Lebanese Shi'ite linked to the Hizballah in Lebanon, has been identified and is believed to be in Iran. So is the leader of the Saudi Hizballah, the secret organization the Saudis uncovered after the Dhahran bombing. The Saudis believe all this points to Tehran. (They also suspect that rogue elements of Syria's security apparatus, on Iran's payroll, may be involved...
...Secret-Service agents in New York City usually seize about $50,000 worth of counterfeit bills a week, but not even these seen-it-all G-persons had ever eyed any money as funny as the $20 bills that turned up last summer in local bars and restaurants. Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into...
Proselytizing via these handwrought manuscripts was not an easy task. The Bibles were rare, fragile and generally came in one flavor: Latin. The problems didn't go away until the mid-1400s, when a German inventor named Johann Gutenberg wheeled his movable-type press out of its secret hiding place and into history...