Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewing stand of Washington's Army Day parade, new Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the Commander in Chief shared a secret that the marchers knew nothing about. When the parade was over, Johnson announced that, so far as he was concerned, that was the last Army Day. If Congress approved, the cherished Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force Days would be unified into a single "Armed Forces Day." Swallowing hard...
When young (33), studious-looking Herbert A. Philbrick of Melrose, Mass. took the witness stand that afternoon, he was still a secret, dues-paying, in-good-standing member of the Massachusetts Communist Party. He was secure in its confidence and even a minor functionary in the underground apparatus...
What manner of man was this curly-haired, spectacled witness who looked more like a peaceful, carefully dressed clerk than a secret Government agent? For nine years he had led a double life. To his wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield...
Captain Curtin saw to it that the alloged criminal acts took place, but whether Pratt is the miscreant, or whether a crime was committed at all, is secret. The court will decide the question. The witnesses are authentic and will testify only to what they actually...
...Britain's important secret weapons during World War II was "Fido" (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), a system that cleared fogbound airports. In zero-zero weather, it brought thousands of Allied planes in safely. Fido's burners, alongside runways, threw out flaming gasoline that ate holes...