Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked the door to the Truman Administration scandals. He also opened the investigating book on the Commerce Department's William Remington, who was sent to jail for lying about passing secret information to Soviet Spy Elizabeth Bentley. So scrupulously did Rogers keep politics out of his investigations that Democrats unanimously asked him to stay on as chief counsel when they took over the committee...
...only were Hungarians forbidden to demonstrate; they were forbidden to mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...
...were stopped at four towns by the secret police. You have to have credentials from a town in order to live there, and when you leave, you have to give them up. When we reached Zalaegerszeg, a town fifty miles from the border, we were stopped again, and they made everybody clear out. Three of us were not stopped though. In the summer we had been working in Zalaegerszeg, and we had forgotten to turn in our credentials when we left, so we had documents with us which said we were residents of the town. That saved...
...There was no food in the prison at all--not even for the police. An armed guard walked you to the rest room--the girls went to the same one. Even the secret police were not enthusiastic about their work; they were frightened, and weren't quite sure of themselves as yet. A couple were even friendly, and in the morning, they let us go. I slept the whole day, and in the evening I went to a movie with a friend who was with me; I said I wanted to see this movie before I left Hungary...
...opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...