Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln stopped so that the Plexiglas bubble-top could be pushed back. There he stood in the rear waving, first with his left hand, then right, then both, to the heavy crowds who lined the streets and packed Union Square in front of the downtown St. Francis Hotel. His Secret Service escort moved narrow-eyed and tense through the surging, shouting lobby throng, but the President was clearly delighted as he and Mamie Eisenhower made their way to the elevator for the ride to their two-bedroom suite on the sixth floor. There President Eisenhower received brief courtesy calls from...
...from the St. Francis to the Cow Palace for his acceptance speech, President Eisenhower stood in the rear of his Lincoln and waved all the way, hardly noticing when his hat blew from his hand (it was recovered by a nimble Secret Service man). Marching down the ramp into the Cow Palace auditorium with Mamie at his side, Ike watched delightedly while delegates trumpeted and paraded for nearly 20 minutes. Down from the roof came hundreds of red, white and blue balloons, some labeled "Ike," some "Dick." Finally, the preliminaries over, President Eisenhower faced the 1956 Republican Convention and began...
...into a beautiful and faithful young woman. The analyst, says Dr. Stein, must symbolically grant "sovereignty" to his hag patients by freely accepting "the negative destructive aspect of [his patients'] feminine nature" and casting aside his own "inquisitorial attitude." This, the doctor adds, "is the key to the secret which the analyst must discover if he is to deal successfully with 'loathsome women.' " How well does the key work? Dr. Stein noted with satisfaction last week that all but one of his six hag patients had left his office noticeably less loathsome than when they came...
...start through alchemy, which produced no gold but bred generations of chemists. The kings of Europe regularly hired alchemists not only to try to produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...
...years of such casual administration, G. A. Lyward has rescued scores of disturbed boys for whom teachers, doctors and parents had given up hope. What is his secret? Correspondent Michael Burn decided to find out. He joined the Finchden Manor staff, eventually published a book (Mr. Lyward's Answer; Hamish Hamilton) that last week was the talk of British educational circles. Though Schoolmaster Lyward's secret is too complex to be entirely clear, he emerges from the book as one of the most unusual of living educators...