Word: secretly
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...dirty little secret of the Democratic Party that, as enthusiasm for an active federal government has waned, the party has been unable to replace the New Deal/Great Society mindset of yesterday. Clinton's wishy-washy centrism succeeded in defeating George Bush but failed to instill confidence in the Democrats' ability to govern. As a result, the unthinkable happened--a Republican congress was elected for the first time in 40 years...
...Harvard has a wildcard, it may be Feaster,the nation's scoring leader at 28.2 points pergame. Her talents come as no secret to theCardinal, and her individual decision-making willdetermine whether Harvard plays good teambasketball...
Basil got goose eggs--ha, ha--on her first-round attempts, and Blaeser connected on one to tie the score at 3-3. Team Crimson then unleashed its secret weapons, much to the displeasure of Harvard's players and coaches--well, most of them...
...such an effective job of deception that by July 1995, UNSCOM was ready to declare its task done and close up shop. Then an extraordinary event happened: Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, who had been in charge of Iraq's secret-weapons development, defected to Jordan, where he went public with details of the concealment program...
...Near week's end, [President] Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: 'She might well have been an assassin.'" --Nov. 22, 1963, date of issue on sale the week Kennedy was shot in Dallas...