Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination...
Communists at Home. It was nine months since Tito had been formally declared a heretic by Moscow for refusing to let Russia exploit his country's economy, to let Russian secret police spy on his own secret police. The world had largely believed that it would be a matter of weeks before Tito recanted or was liquidated. Last week, Tito was still in full control of his party, his army and his police force...
Muroc is the U.S. Air Force's secret test base. Its ships, as un-nautical Air Forcemen insist on calling aircraft, are the latest planes, from the big B-36 to Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles...
What he experienced at the critical moment when he crossed the sonic barrier is a tightly guarded secret. But when he looked at his instruments after a few moments, he realized that he was flying actually faster than sound. The terrible sonic wall lay far behind. The X-1 had not disintegrated. It still flew beautifully ("a pilot's dream") and Chuck was still in one piece...
...have not been released. The Air Force says that it has flown "hundreds of miles" faster than sound. It has probably flown above Mach 2 (1,324 m.p.h. in the cold upper atmosphere) and reached a height above 60,000 ft., a record for airplanes. The big secret - what happens as it passes Mach 1 -is well kept. Chuck has been so carefully coached on this detail that he knows how to ward off questions before they are asked. Possibly something dramatic happens. It would be just as dramatic, perhaps more so, if nothing at all happens...