Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time a country doctor, Duvalier came to power in 1957, emerging as president after months of political upheaval, rioting, executions, and military rule. He modeled his regime after that of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and enforced it with his secret police, the famed Tonton Macoute...
Cold & Warm. Another emerging, and perturbing, pattern for the 1968 campaign is the prospect that violently hostile demonstrations will rule out the handshaking style of campaigning amid big crowds that Johnson likes. His secret journey to Dallas not only precluded large gatherings along his route but even took local lawmen by surprise. Police Chief Charles Batchelor received only one hour's warning from the Secret Service. Johnson intends to announce none of his trips in advance, will honor speechmaking invitations only at the last moment...
...product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged that Strickman's secret polymer device was "not as efficient" as "some filters now in production...
...industry. To many opposition Tories and business leaders, the I.R.C. smacks of "back door nationalization," under which the government could wind up with a dominant voice in the new industrial combines that it fosters. In fact, the I.R.C.'s own managing director, Merchant Banker Ronald Grierson, made no secret of his growing distaste for Wilson's interventionist economic policies, finally quit his post last October...
...upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty, who craves Mortimer's body, insists on a pay-as-you-go arrangement in order to cater to what she presumes is his sense of racial superiority...