Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he was also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...
First he listed the questions most generally asked: Is there a defense? Should we keep the secret? Should we destroy all our bombs? Is it as deadly as we have been led to believe? What about Russia? CBS station managers throughout the U.S. suggested candidates for his panel. Shayon traveled some 10,000 miles to interview them. By letting them speak in their own way, Shayon produced more eloquence than a Corwin drama. Every mispronounced word and stumbling inflection underlined the program's honesty...
Thorez' greatest political liability-his absence from France during the war-is also his greatest political asset. It carried him and Jeannette Vermeersch to Russia. (How, they said last week, "is still a secret." But they did not deny that a Russian bomber might have taken them over part of the journey.) Thorez was living in Russia during the war, when the Russian Communist Party made a successful experiment which the French party is trying to repeat. Moscow fought the war with nationalist, not Communist, slogans. Would this technique be feasible outside the U.S.S.R.? The boys are now trying...
National Champion McKinney, chewing gum confidently after it was over, spilled the secret of his success: "I read a lot. What, for instance? Oh, lots of things. But I'll tell you something I like. It's the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...biochemistry, this should not be impossible. Human beings would have little natural resistance against such synthetic diseases, which might conceivably spread, in a biological chain reaction, through the world's entire population. Perhaps suitable diseases have already been created in several countries, their organisms kept alive in secret, guarded incubators...