Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation of a man in search of an answer to a complicated problem. "A decision," the fifth man once explained...
...understands the military role in a democratic society: "As difficult as some of our sessions with Congress are, I feel they are vital in preventing excessive and unwise extremism. Here we are subjected to the kind of evaluation only a democracy can give its military. This is the secret of our success, I feel...
...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...
While Premier Guy Mollet hesitated between proclaiming a cease-fire outright as a starter and continuing secret efforts to talk the rebels into a cease-fire agreement, terror tightened its grip on Algeria. Much of the terror was to influence the vote. Halfway through an afternoon of football, bombs exploded simultaneously in two packed stadiums on opposite sides of Algiers, killing twelve and wounding 60. A father bent in horror over the headless body of his 20-year-old daughter. A Moslem candy vendor stared at the mangled form of his helper, took off running with his case of sweets...
...know that to achieve this we did not need a complex organization, we did not need secret plotting. The pitiful daily spectacle of the intellectual and moral poverty of our university, the narrowness of horizons of the present Spanish life, were enough to unite us, the young people of Spain, against a regime that is impotent and can offer no dignified future...