Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I didn't marry a King, I married a professor," the late Queen Louise of Sweden once remarked about her husband's lifelong search for archaeological treasures. Now 89, King Gustaf VI Adolf still enjoys an annual exploration in Italy. His latest dig is at Viterbo, 50 miles...
In a symbolic act before spilling his secrets, he takes off his glasses and crushes them, noting wryly top himself that he could always see perfectly well without them. When his son notices and asks why he wore them for all those years, he smiles softly and says "to see...
Moreover, advance knowledge of the impending sale would have given Continental an enormous potential for gain. The company, knowing it could not lose, could have speculated heavily in wheat futures. Its officials could have quietly instructed their agents to buy all the wheat they could at the low prices then...
The West German Air Traffic Controllers Association last week defied its country's official-secrets act and published a list of more than 100 dangerously near misses in the two months from mid-June to mid-August.
HOSTMANSHIP. On the floor of the guest-room closet, the Host secrets a corrugated cardboard box full of ancient trophies, medals and ribbons, purchased at local antique emporiums. The awards-the more tarnished the better -may be for floral arrangements or American Legion conventions; none needs have the Host'...