Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East last July, leave Lebanese soil last week. They left a wearied Beirut at last in some semblance of peace: movies reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping and bomb-throwing and shouting about "throwing the invaders into the sea." There was no other reason for U.S. troops to sneak away; brought in to stabilize...
...this academic year, Wright will step down from the presidency of Smith. The identity of his successor--it will probably be a man--is a jealously guarded secret...
...Author Greene sees it, he is just the kind of man the British Secret Service needs in Havana. The proposition is first put to him in the men's washroom at Sloppy Joe's bar. A worldly friend advises him to take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...
...chill of lurking dread is no longer so chilly, the pace no longer so breathless as in Greene's earlier thrillers. He cannot resist slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus...
...have made no secret of the fact that in the past the U.S. has been inclined to feel that the troops [on Quemoy and Matsu] were excessive for the needs of the situation," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance...