Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaken by Nixon and Alcorn, the President ordered Alcorn to make a top-secret survey of Republican sentiment at a forthcoming national committee meeting in Chicago. Alcorn's finding: a near-unanimous opinion that Adams must...
Estimates of NATO strength remained secret for security reasons, although the Admiral admitted that the allied forces were considerably smaller than the Soviet armies. Despite their military strength, however, the Russians have "the patience and the realism" not to launch an attack while they are convinced of swift and united retaliation, Admiral Wright declared. "Our ability to convince them of this is the primary deterrent to aggression," he emphasized...
...Milwaukee's David Previant, 47, framed Teamster constitutions that sapped power from local unions and centralized it in conferences and national officers. CJ Seattle's Sam Bassett, 61, a quarter-century Beck intimate, arranged secret Teamster loans to truckers, joined Teamster officials in borrowing union funds to make a killing on Campbell Soup stock...
...restrictions on luxury imports, the enterprisers of Gwadar took to their dhows to keep Karachi's shops well filled with the restricted items. When the Pakistanis tried to check the flow with a fleet of patrol boats, the smugglers installed powerful diesel engines in their dhows, sped to secret rendezvous with mysterious tramp steamers far offshore, then raced for the Gateway of Winds faster than Pakistan customs launches could follow. From Gwa-.dar the smuggled stuff poured into Pakistan's markets by camel train, fishing boats and trailers pulled by souped-up Chevrolets along the sandy beaches...
...itself, the Globe and Mail could be regarded as a single shrill voice. More alarming is the possibility that the Ottawa government, prodded by Canadian friends of Red China, might agree, thus shattering the Western front against U.N. recognition of the Reds. It is an open secret in Washington that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has pressed President Eisenhower for a softer policy toward Red China. The State Department was also jolted by Diefenbaker's hint that Canada might take the initiative to turn the Quemoy crisis over...