Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assisting in the delivery room, I am always profoundly impressed at the miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human being. How much more logical it would be to attribute creation to "the handiwork...
Inside, they discovered rope, leg irons, and swords, as well as an assortment of juju charms bearing the warning that all men and women in the 14 villages around "must respect me and do whatever I say." It soon turned out that the chief was a member of a secret cult that inappropriately bears the name of Odozi Obodo, the "Committee of the Peacemakers...
...close, the slender hands seem to carve the phrases out of the choky nightclub air. And the voice, sweet and strong above the rhythm section, curls around the lyrics like a husky caress. The voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land...
...cold, misty night, 10,000 oppositionists gathered in Constitution Plaza to hear People's Radical Party leaders end their postelection truce by charging Frondizi with selling out to both Peronistas and Communists. More ominous than the rally was a flurry of small, secret meetings among young anti-Peronista officers in barracks and military clubs...
Chief Justice Orgaz and most of the other judges resumed their posts. Afraid of pushing the military too far, the Peronistas stopped talking tough. Underground Leader Guillermo Kelly called newsmen to a secret rendezvous and said he would go along with Frondizi's program "for the good of democracy." For a while at least, Frondizi might be able to concentrate on the grievous economic problems of his fertile but bankrupt country...