Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers for the next day's session. In all-night conferences, both questions and answers were reviewed at the Pentagon by an Air Force task force and by a high-ranking Navy security specialist. Of the 153 questions asked during two days' hearings, LeMay answered 78 in secret session. Despite all this, his public answers stirred up the thickest defense debate the Eisen hower Administration had yet seen. The key answers...
Neither physicists nor industrialists have been learning much about fusion. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission keeps the whole subject rigidly secret. The British fusion program has been kept secret...
Scientists of all countries know about the pinch effect, but their work with it has been minor, or is still secret. According to Kurchatov, the Russians made a big effort and got some remarkable results. By sending very heavy currents in short pulses through tubes containing such gases as deuterium (heavy hydrogen), they concentrated the gas in the center of the tube and held it there for an appreciable instant, while its temperature rose toward...
...ahead of the U.S. and Britain. Kurchatov's speech did not justify any such conclusion. What it did prove is that Soviet scientists 1) have been doing ambitious and interesting work on controlled fusion, and 2) they are not compelled to keep all their results secret...
This was good, not bad, news to 250 delegates from 51 nations assembled in Rome. It meant that leprosy victims, so long shunted into isolation or secret shame by society's ancient fear of the disease, are now coming forward voluntarily to disclose their ailment and seek treatment. Doctors, missionaries, social workers and others who have labored for years against leprosy hoped they had finally dented the wall of rejection and abhorrence that has forced most leprosy victims to live a stigmatized life...