Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy Secretary Francis ("Rowboat") Matthews was furious when he learned about Burke's Op-23. He ordered Navy inspectors to raid Burke's offices. They descended late one afternoon and held Burke and his staff incommunicado all night while they searched through the files for secret papers (they found none). A few weeks later, Matthews drew a red line through Burke's name on a list of promotions to rear admiral; it was back on the next list after a press outcry and the personal intervention of Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, with...
...turned out that what my family said was true-about the cruelty of secret police investigations and about the dictatorship of Stalin. It has turned out that history was really forged. And I? I do no know how to change my soul for the fourth time without fear that it will become...
...evasion did not dispel curiosity; it doubled it. The obvious inference was that Commander Crabb had been employed by some secret arm of the government. Whatever the intelligence agency hoped to learn under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze was plainly not worth the risk of being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment...
...between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval base commander, a rear admiral, who "categorically denied the possibility" of a British frogman in the area. "In actual fact," said Moscow, Crabb's secret activities have since been confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests, and, as is assumed, lost his life during these tests. His presence in the vicinity of the destroyers occurred without any permission whatever, and Her Majesty...
...cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last; three scugnizzi emerged from the shadows and entered with him. The surprised custodian, alert to the secret, fed Father Borelli bread and jam with the others, even though this breaking of the fast after midnight kept him from saying Mass the next morning. "This seems like a movie to me," he whispered as he passed the food around...