Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant in Salisbury has had to curtail production because of a shortage of parts, and the nearby Rover plant has started turning out Japanese Isuzu trucks to replace the British lorries it once assembled. Tobacco, once Rhodesia's principal source of foreign exchange, is now piling up in secret government warehouses-three of which are disguised as hangars on an unused Salisbury airfield. The government recently initiated a "Guard Against Gossip" campaign (nicknamed "GAG") warning Rhodesians not to discuss economic troubles with foreigners...
...professors who fought for the proposal made no secret of their intentions. They did not like the possibility of having the grades they handed out used at some future date to help determine a student's military status. They felt it would distort the purpose and importance of grades. They rightly found the Selective Service's attempts to tell "good" students from "bad" distasteful and were suspicious of the entire deferment system...
...different set of standards; illegal or immoral acts are not part of the American armory. In a gathering that is not unanimous in praise of President Johnson I would like to applaud him for his decision last week to bring to an end the messy business of secret subsidies to private organizations. I might add that I also think a better developed sense of liberal outrage on the part of all of us would have brought it to an end earlier...
...high on proteins, low on carbohydrates, nothing fried), along with a stern admonition to eat only three reasonable meals a day and keep a careful watch on between-meal snacking. What makes Weight Watchers different from most other dieters is that they usually follow the prescribed regimen faithfully. The secret: frequent meetings, similar to the sessions of Alcoholics Anonymous, at which a lecture is followed by statements by each member on how much weight he has gained or lost that week...
...unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent the postwar years chasing such outlaws as the Reno Boys and the James Brothers. About the only tarnished spot on the Pinks' badge of honor was their later service when they hired out as company spies or strikebreakers in incidents like the 1892 steelworkers' strike against...