Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a distance, the current Greek government looks like a comic farce. The ruling colonels are a parody of the modern military regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret police and censorship. Combining the absurd and the petty, the Greek colonels prohibit political talk in private homes, and deprive Melina Mercouri of her citizenship. Puritanical instincts have prompted them to ban mini-skirts, long hair, classical Greek plays, and to declare compulsory church attendance...
...political institutions--the money room. Apart from their headquarters, candidates for high, and expensive public offices, usually maintain a posh suite of rooms where they greet and meet potential financial contributors. To add to the atmosphere of exclusiveness, the location of the money room is always a well-guarded secret...
...course, no secret in Britain that George Brown sometimes takes a drink-or that a drink sometimes takes him. On other occasions, he has shown what was considered undue familiarity with members of the royal family (he once even asked Princess Margaret for a kiss). At a farewell party aboard the Queen Mary last month, he frugged with a series of ladies and reportedly nibbled the ear of one. The photographers loved it, and London's tabloids splashed the pictures across their front pages. The photographers were back in force last week looking for more...
Consummate Duplicity. As British counterintelligence chief, he knew every strategic secret-from the development of new nuclear weapons to troop deployments-that might interest the Russians; his job was to track down and tell his government exactly which secrets had been penetrated by Russian spies. From that position, he 1) kept the Kremlin up to date on everything that really mattered, 2) selected which secrets to tell the British that the Russians knew about, and 3) told the Russians which secrets he had told the British they knew about...
...such a fertile subject for mimicry. Comics who have played the show liken him to "a greeter at Forest Lawn cemetery," crack that "he is one of the few men who can light up a room-just by leaving it." Perhaps the most telling quip about Sullivan's secret of screen longevity came from Fred Allen: "He will last as long as someone else has talent." To Sullivan, there is no mystery. "I am," he says matter-of-factly, "the best damned showman on television...