Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it is still just work...
...afternoon there was a picnic for Bess Truman's mother, Mrs. David W. Wallace; the next day a formal birthday dinner in her honor. Harry Truman got a rare opportunity to drive his own car when he went over to visit his mother again, accompanied only by a secret service agent...
Berlin had taught a lesson which the Russians applied to all Germany. In the capital, which was the one place in Germany where goods, ideas, people and publications pass freely back & forth among zones, the Western Powers had proved themselves stronger. A secret poll in Greater Berlin last week showed that only 18% of Berliners were more friendly to Russia than to the Western Powers...
...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Ralph Ingersoll referees a debate on his anti-British Top Secret, with British Newsman William E. Hart for the book and U.S. Correspondent Henry J. Taylor against...