Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1985, two months before convictedspy Ronald Pelton was arrested for espionage andeight months before he went on trial, The Postlearned about the top secret intelligencecapability that Pelton had sold to the Soviets...
Post editors, unaware of Pelton's leaks to theSoviets, believed that they "had the highestnational security secret any of us had everheard," Bradlee said...
Although that information was no longer secret,Bradlee said, The Post's story on the subjectelicited a stern denunciation from the secretaryof defense--followed by 4000 letters to theeditor, some of which contained death threats
...across the nation. In a dangerous four-year investigation, police and FBI agents had planted bugs around Mafia hangouts and listened to endless hours of tiresome chatter about horses, cars and point spreads while waiting patiently for incriminating comments. They pressured mobsters into becoming informants. They carefully charted the secret family ties, linking odd bits of evidence to reveal criminal patterns. They helped put numerous mafiosi, one by one and in groups, behind bars. But last week, after a half-century in business, the American Mafia itself finally went on trial...
...shamefaced, merely and drearily lustful, like sex between siblings." A wife reaches for kind thoughts about her husband and almost succeeds: "I would think how humble he was, really, taking on such a ready-made role of husband, father, breadwinner, and how I myself in comparison was really a secret monster of egotism. Not so secret, either -- not from him." But such knowledge, in these stories, brings gains as well / as losses, the wisdom that only experience can impart. One character realizes: "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later...