Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merchant Thomas' salesmanship is not negative. He has a businesslike plan for bringing youth back to California's tired GOParty, and the plan is catching on. His enthusiastic associates believe that he has found the secret for stirring Republicans into offensive action elsewhere...
...relies on the strength of reason of individuals: Russia concentrates in one man all the power of society. The one has for his principal means of action, Liberty, the other, Servitude. Their points of departure are different; their paths are diverse. But each of them seems called by a secret design of Providence to hold one day in his hands the destinies of half the world...
Flaunted Funerals. Ever since A.M.G. took over Trieste, Tito's PNOO (Regional Liberation Committee), backed by a local secret-police force on NKVD lines, has been in underground opposition to it. The battle reached its height in early July when the editor of Glas Savozaikov, the Slovene paper, was fined 200,000 lire for publishing false rumors about A.M.G. "calculated to excite and alarm the people...
Russia kept her production figures secret. Outside estimates forecast a better yield than last year, but not exceeding the low wartime average. If Paris reports were true, the Soviet Government was seeking to sell some 50 million bushels of grain abroad; it was probably not because of surplus stocks, but to win friends and influence people. Crop estimates from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland were discouraging. In India and China, famine threatens to linger on at least until November, when the new rice crop will be gathered...
Last week the Italian city of Milan buzzed with rumors of a secret society, the "Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country houses and Milan hotel rooms. The bare fact: for at least the 15th time in five years, consecrated hosts had been stolen from a church near Milan. (Authorities believe such thefts occur frequently without being reported to the police; also, that old women and children are bribed to carry hosts out in their mouths. Valuable jeweled pyxes, in which the wafers are kept, have not been taken...