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...however, they evince a curious disquietude at the series of Boston Post articles by John Fox on the same subject using a great deal more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles...
Without Technicolor, Moulin Rouge could have been an excellent film. But the glittering colors becloud rather than claborate its sensitive pathos...
Aided by the passage of time, the steady drumfire of Communist propaganda had done much to becloud the facts of the Rosenberg case. In the summer of 1950, the FBI had arrested Julius Rosenberg, a sallow, bespectacled engineer, on the charge that he had acted as paymaster and talent scout for a spy ring which, during and after World War II, delivered to Russia U.S. military secrets of supreme importance. His wife Ethel was accused of aiding...
...mysterious disease is retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), in which there is a fibrous thickening of tissue behind the lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is changed beyond recognition: doctors are far from agreement on the signs of the disease, and some wonder whether they are dealing with two or more diseases...
...O.A.S., the Dominicans did their best to becloud the issue by dragging in their old charges against Cuba and Guatemala, demanding that the O.A.S. investigate them, too. Cried Dominican Ambassador Joaquin Salazar (whose country boasts the Caribbean's most impressive war machine): "We suffer from a permanent state of aggression!" Council members snickered, but agreed to let him have his say. In the boiling Caribbean, they felt, there could be no such thing as too much investigation...