After a long period of secret struggle, reminiscent of the internal battles of the old Russian Politburo, they agree to go to Hawaii.

The result was a protracted secret struggle for mastery of Central Asia known as "the Great Game," amply chronicled in a recent book by Peter Hopkirk.

Something discordant, as if a secret struggle were going on inside the master extortioner.

Known as the quiet man of Rhodesian politics, he nevertheless was a key figure in the secret struggle against United Nations sanctions imposed after UDI.

His dismayed thoughts leaped out to that far, alien world in whose deadly and secret struggle he too was now involved.

Her secret struggle was a kind of dark, self-affirming vitality through which the best of her had survived.

She starts to wonder what would happen if Akkarin was to die and no one would be able to carry on the secret struggle with the Sachakan spies.

Norski is making progress and now decides to share his secret struggle with his close-knit friends, while gifting a special treasure to a special friend.

The plight of the miners and the secret bureaucratic struggle of years ago is attracting renewed attention in the West and in Washington.

Whitacre's good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and his internal, secret struggle with bipolar disorder seems to take over his exploits.