Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued the training begun by him were imprisoned. In the spring of 1941, when the services of Haganah were again required, these men were released and the British themselves took over the training of a large group of men to create an effective military force for secret commando operations. Men and women of the Palmach undertook many missions for the British during the war. Hannah Szenesh was but one of the many who gave their lives...
...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
Nary a squawk has come from Worcester, but it is no secret that Holy Cross is steaming over the case of George Connor, its 225-lb. All-America tackle, who decided to attend Notre Dame this year. Leahy has plucked two other red-ripe plums: Frank Kosikowski, ex-Marquette end, who starred last year on the champion Fleet City (Calif.) Navy team; and pugnacious Center George Strohmeyer, ex-Texas A. & M. and Iowa Pre-Flight...
...five oppositionist deputies in Mexico's new Congress comes from Monterrey. It is no secret that his election was mainly due to the well-organized vote of the independent unions. But Monterrey also hopes for much from President-elect Miguel Alemán. José (Don Pepe) Muguerza, the driving chieftain of the "brewery group," campaigned for him, admires him as an administrator and for that quality most urgently required by the regiomontano, "ability to get things done...
Victor Moore lowered his bubble-shaped person into a lovely marble tub, assumed a moderately rapt expression, and, clutching his cigar, gave the world a change from the usual bubble-bath picture (see cut). The secret of his basketball-sized bubbles he kept to himself...