Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding the blossoms until they were exhausted. "Do you believe we would have come 40 miles to see him if he were not a god?" asked one old woman indignantly. "Did he not send us wheat when we were...
Last week Detroit police explained that the secret of the Averills' prosperity was not rich relatives but a breathtakingly simple moneymaking technique. They arrested plump Mamie Averill, 58, on a charge of embezzling $100,513 from Giffels & Vallet. Apparently she had scooped out a lot more than that: a partial audit of the records revealed shortages totaling $876,168 during 1950-55 alone...
...political atmosphere of Australia. It doesn't smell right to me. I am not a Communist. My wife is not a Communist. We have never been Communist. I am less Communist than [Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard G.] Casey because I don't believe in secret police and he does." Clearing his throat, he added: "Until this political atmosphere is cleaned up, I could not advise any public-spirited man of any intellectual level to come to Australia...
...engineering contracts. But the scientists, including Communist Yugoslavs, worked in amity. At CERN there were no weapons projects and no problems of national security. "Any scientist can work here, help himself to our blueprints, take pictures of any damn thing around here," says MacCabe. "Nothing is secret...
...nine years her senior, the son of a wealthy ranching family. It was an alliance that seemed eccentric even for Hollywood. Martin was studying law when he met Anne (after five failures at the bar exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother in person; the newlyweds moved into separate apartments, which they occupied for six months. Her husband always slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow. It made her nervous, she admits, but years later she told Playwright Bill Gibson: "I thought all husbands had guns...