Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that such a procedure would put a stigma on those not nominated by the Masters. This may well be the case, but a stigma could easily be prevented by having the Masters' nomination come only after all others have been received. Or perhaps the Masters' designation could be kept secret or come merely in the form of a request to the individual involved that he place his name on a petition. Hopefully this matter will be cleared up in committee and the final draft presented to the Council tonight will retain the principle of having the Masters...
Something about Washington divests diplomats of their aura of glamor. The sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
...Secret of such astonishing returns is Hammer's easy access to cash and quickie production methods. To launch a film, tiny (160 employees) Hammer borrows from Columbia Pictures, which owns 49% of Hammer's studios in Windsor. Production is fast (average: six weeks...
Author Wolfe claims that his story, which turns on two attempts on Trotsky's life, follows the facts. The account of the assassination relies on General Sanchez Salazar, Mexican chief of secret police, whose Murder in Mexico established beyond much doubt that the man who murdered Trotsky was in fact a Stalinist agent. Wolfe's picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south...
...until 1953) has mellowed since its raucous youth. From its founding, around 1850, until 1921, the exchange operated outdoors, as a noisy swarm of brokers and traders crowded Wall, Broad and Hanover Streets from 8 a.m. to sunset, in fair weather and foul. Because trading was done by flashing secret hand signals, whistling and shouting, the marks of a star broker were leathery lungs, a weatherproof body, and a canny ability to decode competitors' signals...