Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, the tense and secret conferences went on in New Delhi. First, Prime Minister Nehru called at the red sandstone palace of President Rajendra Prasad. A few minutes after Nehru drove off, his daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the new head of the ruling Congress Party, drove up. Later, President Prasad called on his bedridden Home Affairs Minister. Finally, the decision that Nehru has so long dreaded was made...
...last year's civil war, Moghabghab, a Christian (Greek Catholic), sided with Christian (Maronite) President Camille Chamoun. In the mountainous Chouf area near his home, he led a private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...
...until the middle of June, when the young were safely hatched, did Waterston tell his proud secret. By then the young birds were almost as big as squabs on their diet of a pound of fish daily, and the written record of their family life filled 1,250 pages. Next year, if all goes well, there will be more osprey families on bonny Scotland's barbed-wire braes...
...cost CBS more than $1,500,000 a year; but the wigged, whiskered, grandfatherly old party with his big, pouchy pockets and perky hats is far and away the best in the often over-cute field of children's TV. His real name is Bob Keeshan, and his secret is that he talks softly to the kids, tells them what makes the world tick, with the same fizzless, unexcited manner that NBC's Dave Garroway uses on their parents. (In the same time slot. Kangaroo consistently matches or beats Garroway in the Nielsen ratings...
...British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what I see, and I don't gild the truth." The truth through her eyes could be seen in the show's best canvas: a pain-racked image entitled Convalescent Gypsy. She had made no secret of the fact that her model died the day after she finished...