Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...
That was the current Communist line, and that was the not-very-secret weapon of Italian Communism. It was not only Sicilian peasants who fell for it. Chirped a Milanese debutante last week: "Communism doesn't prevent you from listening to music, sipping tea or eating pastry...
...Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...materials are coming in again and the big copper tanks and brown bottles are filled with tens of millions of francs worth of extracts, which white-robed girls dribble carefully into flacons. The real secret is to use more natural than synthetic musk. As Jeanpierre Guerlain explains: "Go into a Montmartre bar around midnight-the air reeks with synthetic musk. It smells of tarts. It takes real musk to make a woman smell like a lady...
...revealing this tale of international oil intrigue and secret diplomacy, Moffett had left out a few chapters. They were thoughtfully supplied last week by William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, Aramco director and board chairman of the Texas Co. First, he called Moffett's accusations of overcharging the Navy "absolutely false." Then Rodgers threw a Sunday punch. Moffett, he implied, was firing off his charges because he was trying to get control of Arabian oil himself. A year ago, Moffett had tried to persuade Ibn Saud to cancel Aramco's concession, give it to Moffett & friends. If Ibn Saud...