Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, under a rust-colored banner bearing the legend "Trust in God and Work," the President received his sixth honorary degree, and extemporaneously admonished the nation: "Work, work, work! . . . Let me tell you a secret. Leadership isn't worth very much unless there are a few workers and followers. That is true on the farm . . . the coal mines . . . the railroads . . . the automobile factories . . . the mills. Get in line...
...even better than New Orleans' historic Mardi gras. Despite occasional rain, the city echoed to the sound of countless parades; of parties and balls at which Carnival satraps made glittering entrances. The Cotton King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly. So did Memphis Negroes, for whom their first citizen-blues writer W. C. Handy-tootled a horn...
...rumors that the Foreign Ministers had agreed on more than they said they had. Most persistent: that Byrnes engineered a deal under which Britain got trade concessions in Italy in return for a further recognition of Russian predominance in the Balkans. Officials denied these reports, but remembrance of the secret deals of Yalta gave wings to the gossip...
...were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
Fearful lest history's pudding smack too bitterly of the gall, wormwood and Bromo-Seltzer dropped into it by PM Editor Ralph Ingersoll's war report, Top Secret* (TIME, April 22), Correspondent Clifford last week began adding his own salty seasoning...