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Word: secretion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could you stir us up this way with the provocative information that wealthy King Saud's gift to Ike was a secret [Feb. 18]? We keep imagining a locked room somewhere in the White House, unknown even to Mamie, in which is hidden a bevy of veiled and beauteous dancing girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...secret is out. Saud gave Ike a scimitar in a lavishly jeweled scabbard. Ike gave Saud an original painting of a Colorado landscape by a well-known amateur artist, bearing the initials D.D.E. in its corner, plus a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Kadar has succeeded in suppressing all active resistance by ruthless use of the secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Spirit of Passive Resistance | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

After the election of Smith and Winter to the important positions of President and Vice-President, the meeting calmed down noticeably and the secret ballot was abandoned in favor of the speedier standing vote...

Author: By Leo A. Guthart, | Title: Smith Defeats Stalker In Republican Contest | 3/8/1957 | See Source »

...months, urged on by his personal pilot and Air Force aide, Lieut. Colonel Bill Draper, but at first actively opposed by the Secret Service (which had similar objections before Ike began to use two-engined instead of four-engined planes for short hauls), the President has wanted to beat his traffic problem by using a helicopter to take him directly from the White House to the airport-and even as far as his Gettysburg farm. The White House last week announced that Ike had given the green light for helicopter test flights to and from the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Common Colds & 'Copters | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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