Word: secrete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
Head held high, Judy went to the witness box to tell what a terrible mistake the Government had made in thinking that she, a trusted employee in the Justice Department, meant to give a purseful of secret data to Soviet U.N. Employee Valentin Gubichev...
...Judy stepped down from the stand at week's end, many a spectator wondered how her story would sound under cross examination this week. But none denied that Judy and Archie had put on the brashest old-fashioned courtroom melodrama Washington had seen since the secret document replaced the mortgage as a prop for villains...
...Tirana, the tubby little ex-tinker Koci Xoxe met the ultimate end of all unregenerate purgees. Once the general secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, Xoxe was shot by a firing squad of the same secret police he had once organized. Also convicted of being "plotters against popular democracy," three other pro-Tito Albanians got stiff prison terms...
Died. Colonel Harry Cooper (ret.), 52, onetime Secret Service agent (1921-42) and part-time personal bodyguard to four Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt), wartime provost marshal in the CBI theater who uncovered a $10 million air-smuggling ring operated by Army Air Forces men and local racketeers; by his own hand (.45-caliber automatic); in Baltimore...