Word: secrets
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...male resident of Wigglesworth Hall had also planned an elaborate ritual. Sophomores who survived the housing ordeal last year passed down their secret to the seven men in his group...
DeVore makes no secret of his teaching strategy...
NCAA: The National College of Arbitrary Admonishers. This secret society, based in Kansas City, Mo., dishes out random penalties and suspensions without adequate explanation, similar to the New York State judicial system. The NCAA "Clearinghouse" assures that young athletes don't start committing felonies until they...
...Napoleon consoled himself by taking to bed the wife of one of his young lieutenants in Egypt; he dispatched the poor husband back to France on an "urgent secret mission." Napoleon set up housekeeping with the woman, arranged a quickie divorce for her, but then, some months later, breezily abandoned her by telling her one afternoon that he was off to Alexandria to check the fortifications. She never saw him again...
...plan sounded simple. The CIA would help Pakistan organize a secret unit that would carry out a plot to slip into neighboring Afghanistan to snatch alleged terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN. CIA officers would be assigned to the unit, and the U.S. would provide training and equipment. PRESIDENT CLINTON approved the plan, and the team should have been off and running last year. In fact, it never left the gate: despite CIA enthusiasm, the Pakistanis dragged their feet and never got beyond basic training. "They didn't do squat," says an Administration official close to the operation. Now the U.S. suspects...