Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lately through the disclosure of previously secret documents. Britain took the wraps off its secrets in 1972, and the U.S. did the same in stages completed in 1975. Authors promptly went lurching after never-told-before stories. A notable example came out last month with a most unwieldy title: Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II's Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents. The secret: how the Allies did and did not use intercepted German coded information...
...impressive early showings, then blown a shot at post-season competition with unexpected collapses. But in 1978-79, Bill Cleary's squad didn't bother to heighten the suspense: from their 7-2 drubbing at the hands of Dartmouth in the opener to the long-awaited finale (Yale's ultra-frustration job at the New Haven Colliseum), the skaters inspired no delusions of grandeur, only apathy and pathos...
...times, though, the zaniness gives way to ultra-seriousness. "At the New Englands, anytime we'd go out on the court I'd be talking to people I knew there," Chaikovsky, a native of Hartford, said, "and he'd say. 'C'mon, Chai, quit signing autographs and play...
...speech to party officials last month. Among other things, Deng denounced Chinese who indulged in Western-style dancing or who "sold state secrets" to foreigners. As if on cue, city and provincial bosses quickly went on the attack against all political protest. China's press denounced "ultra-democracy," as well as the "black sheep" who helped "to launch vicious attacks on party and state leaders." The Peking Daily dismissed human rights as a mere "bourgeois slogan...
...intelligence gathering under cover of overseas research. It would neither cause foreign countries to release secrets to American professors which they had not revealed before nor grant them any wider freedom of travel or access. Needless to say, strange research projects sustained by the CIA--such as MK ULTRA--discredit the agency and faculty concerned as do attempts by academics to spy on radical groups on campus. Congress must insist these activities cease immediately...