Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time champion boxer, this fighter-turned-artist runs the stockroom by himself, providing students and faculty with an inexpensive and aesthetically pleasing alternative to shopping in the Square. An artist without an agent or a gallery, Matthews' one man "show" in the stockroom is a well-kept artistic secret in an unusual place...
...revelations of secret arms deals with Iran and the consequent diversion of profits from those sales to aid the contra rebels in Nicaragua are more than just the story of some overzealous actions by a gung-ho cowboy. They suggest an Administration's disdain for the often cumbersome mechanics of democracy and a simple, breathtaking willingness to preach one thing in public and do another in private...
...crisis began in early November, when a Lebanese magazine disclosed that the U.S. had sent military spare parts to Iran after a secret visit to Tehran by Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser. Reports then started to proliferate that President Reagan, who repeatedly declared that he would never negotiate with terrorists and who condemned Iran as a member of a new, international "Murder Inc.," had authorized clandestine shipments of weapons to Tehran in an effort to gain the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Two days before Thanksgiving, the President went on national television to announce that Vice Admiral...
...action. After joining the NSC in 1981, he became known for his overt patriotism and his covert activities. North seemed to pop up at every trouble spot around the world: cheerleading for the contras in Honduras and stalking terrorists in Lebanon. He helped plan the invasion of Grenada, the secret mining of Nicaraguan harbors and the hijacking of the plane carrying the Achille Lauro terrorists. Later, North became the point man for the private network financing the Nicaraguan rebels...
...secret of Therese's overnight success was simple: she had a genius for loving Jesus. "Passing by me," she wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most radiant devotion. Therese was a vibrant teenager, bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous...