Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...Ponzi's secret was absurdly simple, he explained: he bought depreciated foreign currency with U.S. dollars, converted it into International Postal Union reply coupons at par, then converted the coupons back into dollars. Net: 400%. The police commissioner assigned inspectors to investigate Ponzi; they ended up investing in his company...
Other points included: establishment of a "liaison" office responsible for "military and political affairs during a period of transition"; continued operation of "utilities, banks, warehouses and schools"; continuation of postal and telegraphic service with the outside world. Nationalist transport planes continued to evacuate military men and Kuomintang secret service operatives...
...months Juan Perón's secretary, Spanish-born José Figuerola, had toiled in secret over the President's proposals for revising the battered Argentine constitution of 1853. Even the staunchest Peronistas had no inkling of the changes...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...