Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security Council decision seemed sensible enough. The U.S. had committed itself to pass on to the rest of the world, including Russia, scientific information obtained from IGY programs, so it seemed desirable, to the NSC (and to IGY scientists too) to keep Vanguard from getting deeply involved with top-secret military programs. Also, Administration policymakers, in a fit of touchiness about neutralist opinion, wanted to avoid any appearance of using IGY undertakings for military purposes...
...incredible. "The legend of the Raintree is the age-old tale of man's quest for the unattainable.... It is the very tree of life to him who finds it. Its ways are the ways of pleasantness and its paths all lead to peace, to happiness, to the secret of life itself." The actors deserve no little credit for making this sort of twaddle sound much less unlikely on the screen than it looks in print...
Shaplin spoke in reference to the school committee's 17 secret appointments last December, the main issue of the election on November 5. He is endorsed for re-election to the committee by the Cambridge Civic Association, which came in for many attacks at the rally...
...Szena Square only a rare pockmark remains. On the corner where the fighting was most savage, an old woman stands, basket in arm, selling hens. On the surface normalcy has returned. Grass and flowers now surround the tree where an AVH (secret police) colonel once hung. Gone from the parks and squares are the temporary graves of the Freedom Fighters. The Russians have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food...
...Love. Caitlin sizzled over the sexual autograph hunters who stalked Dylan "in packs"-"these thieves of my love [who] were candidly, if not prepossessingly, spreadeagled. from the first tomtomed rumour of a famous name." On occasion, Dylan allowed himself to be caught by the hunters, and Caitlin makes no secret of the fact that she had fans of her own whom she was glad to oblige ("There is no doubt, in some people's minds, as to my super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each...