Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Service announced that during the last fiscal year it had made the biggest haul of counterfeit U.S. money in history. Reason: an increase in counterfeiting abroad. Of $3,094,000 in seized fake money, $2,145,200 was uncovered in the raid which U.S. agents and French Police made jointly in Marseille...
...Parque Cachú one day last month came Luis Spota, an aggressive, 25-year-old reporter from Mexico City. Friendly Luis Spota managed to penetrate the old man's rock-like reserve. They talked of many things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until...
Chatty Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, was busting to tell the news that nearly everybody guessed (TIME, July 19). In a Page One editorial he spilled it: "We don't like to scoop the dear old lady of First and Spring on a secret she has so zealously guarded, but . . . on Monday . . . the Los Angeles Times will announce that she is expecting. It will be a spanking new tabloid newspaper, to be born in the afternoon field some time early in October...
Brother Crawford was glad he didn't have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...
...anti-Communist began to spread. Many of her letters were opened. Her dates refused to take her to the central places in Warsaw where they might be seen with her. And one young man, whom she had met at a university dance, "was obviously a member of the secret police assigned to spy on me. The Poles laughed at us for trying to come to terms with the Russians. They're cynical, because they're caught...