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Word: secrets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, Britain, France and the three Benelux nations will compose the Council. Others will be invited to join. The Council will consist of government ministers meeting in secret and a "consultative body" meeting in public. The body of ministers will control the agenda of the lower deliberative chamber, and in general will exercise the real power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Three-Twentieths of the Way | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Fighting All the Way. George Drew's plans had been worked out in secret presession caucuses with Conservative M.P.s. By week's end, he had made plain the strategy decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Enter George Drew | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Above all else, Stuffy Mcinnis emphasized that the secret of good defensive play is teamwork, and that the pivot of and infield is its first baseman. His part of the program was purely defensive baseball, no Mcinnis' theories on how to hit a baseball will have to wait until he holds his first Harvard practice session in March...

Author: By Donald Carsweli, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Once arrived in Saigon, secret agent Powell proceeds to make himself extremely inconspicuous. After a thorough scrubbing, he dons a white lines suit and goes to a local nightspot where he stands at the bar and drinks champagne. So far, so good...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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