Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April 5 and 6, 1909, by Peary's wife, note that the sun was rising steadily over a period of minutes. Had Peary been exactly at the North Pole, the sun would have remained stationary. Rawlins, who stumbled onto the secret in the Johns Hopkins library, believes Peary faked his accomplishment. Yet by instructing his wife to preserve the notes, Rawlins adds, "Peary himself took steps to ensure that the truth would survive...
...down the front steps of his plane and walked across an agoraphobia of tarmac to a crowd of red-white-and-blue flag- waving, sign-pumping Republicans gathered behind the rope to cheer. In the Kodachrome sunshine, one saw the sharpshooters on the airport roof and the shiny black Secret Service van with black tinted windows, an agent standing on the tailgate with his hand inside a black nylon bag that concealed his automatic weapon. The sunshine itself became sinister and a chill of premonition crossed the mind -- the dank American underdream -- and in a small spasm of panic...
Michael Dukakis' campaign caravan, like a sleek, sinuous dragon, all flashing lights, police outriders, limo, station wagons, Secret Service, staff, two buses for the press, sweeps through Sacramento at 8 in the morning, all traffic halted at intersections by leapfrogging police cars with astonishing precision. Not an instant's impedance in the arteries of democracy. The campaign dazzles by to its event and comes to rest at a glistening green public park in the most splendid of California mornings. A soccer field, roped off. Twenty or 30 small boys in their soccer uniforms, their parents and friends on the sidelines...
Besides the alleged laundering services described in the indictments, BCCI has been accused of handling secret accounts for such clients as Panama's allegedly drug-dealing dictator General Manuel Noriega and Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi. According to congressional testimony made public last week, Amjad Awan, a former BCCI officer arrested at the phony stag party, told a Senate subcommittee last month that he had made political payoffs for Noriega out of a BCCI account. In 1986 Khashoggi transferred $12 million from a BCCI account in Monte Carlo to an arms dealer to help purchase weapons used in the Iran-contra...
Italy's M.P.s have long enjoyed a luxury in West European democracies: a secret ballot. Free to vote as they pleased, ignoring party discipline and constituents, parliamentarians often defeated their own governments on key legislation. The franchi tiratori, or snipers, were a primary cause of instability in Italian politics -- and largely responsible for the frequent changes of government. Last week the six-month-old coalition of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita said, "Enough...