Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western terminus of a 600-yd.-wide swath that was bulldozed for eleven miles through the scrub brush and elephant grass earlier in the year to serve as a free-fire zone in which anything that moves is shot at. Though details of the new barrier remain secret, it is assumed that it will be an extension of the present line over to the Laotian border. Thus it probably will be necessary for the Marines to hold Con Thien until combat engineers complete the barrier and electronic devices, mines and barbed wire take over the surveillance role...
Secretary-General U Thant made no secret of his feeling that the U.S. was being unreasonable. To which Secretary of State Dean Rusk-as near to exasperation as he ever gets-retorted: "If we were to say that we would negotiate only if all of the violence in South Viet Nam were stopped while we continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition...
...cause. Northern foes of the war, contemptuously labeled "Copperheads" after the snake that strikes without warning, held a mass meeting in the President's own hometown of Springfield, Ill. They resolved that "a further offensive prosecution of this war tends to subvert the Constitution and the Government." Secret societies were formed on both sides. Southerners who called themselves "Heroes of America" gave clandestine support to the Union; Northerners organized as "Knights of the Golden Circle" recruited troops for the Confederacy and distributed arms to Lincoln's foes. The Northern press was widely critical. The Laconia, N.H. Democrat went...
...Curia-prepared secret reports outlining the agenda topics vary considerably in imagination and scope. Least impressive is the one on seminaries-a two-page memo that offers no specific proposals for the improvement of priestly training. The document on canon law, however, recommends that reformation of the church's code he undertaken in a spirit of charity rather than conformity to regulation, and that the duties of ecclesiastical superiors as well as their subjects be spelled out, since "the rights of every member of the faithful must be recognized and safeguarded." The document on mixed marriages raises the possibility...
...possible that the Administration is purposely playing its cards close to the vest. It may want to keep the outline of its negotiating position secret lest China put pressure on Hanoi to become more militant in her demands...