Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters of the U.S. and foreign press began gathering sleepily at the State Department. They were handed a little five-page booklet; the text of the North Atlantic Treaty was top secret no longer. The newsmen had two hours to get their questions ready. On the dot of 9 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson, the man who had the answers, faced the reporters...
...villagers of Saint-Sylvestre (pop. 1,200), in the heart of France, had been as close-mouthed as though they were guarding a hidden sockful of gold louis. Their secret leaked out not because they talked too much but because of their potatoes...
...being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior. When newsmen learned last week that Shubert had remarried Marcella in February, again in secret, he informed a reporter: "I have no objection to your printing that it is an authentic rumor...
...surplus set was quickly identified as an I.F.F. transmitter (Identification, Friend or Foe), a highly secret wartime device used by ships and planes for broadcasting an identification signal. If the plane crashed, the "Destructor" exploded, making a molten mass of the wiring and preventing the enemy from reproducing either the wiring or the identification signal...
...original ballots were not counted by the official voting committee, but by three girls appointed by ex-President Joan Projansky '49 in an effort to keep the returns secret until a mass meeting the following...