Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when...
Then they are collected by their trainer, who runs them up & down to get them into fighting trim, tosses them in the air and catches them to toughen up their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost...
...Secret Process. Dave Bazelon held some strong notions about how to run the companies. He thought the two rayon firms were making too much money (last year they had netted $5,700,000 on $37 million in sales). He also suspected that some of their customers were reselling their rayon in the grey market...
...members (four men, two women) of the advance party would need all the hardening they had. Keeping their arrival plans secret, they took off this week from New York City's LaGuardia Field. First stop: London. Destination: the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where, under British protection, they would try to prepare the way for the U.N. Palestine Commission...
...Secret Adviser. Such was the background and preparation of the man who, in a crisis, was called upon to save France. He nearly did it. Author Vallentin makes it very plain that in the last moments before the Terror there was nobody in the Assembly except Mirabeau who had the confidence of the people. He became a secret adviser of the king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips...