Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
...adversely in every movie coming out of Hollywood today. It is obvious from its own records that the committee went into the hearings with the verdict already a certainty. Thomas let the "friendly" witnesses have free rein, permitting them to make all kinds of accusations and vilifications under the cloak of immunity. No one that fell under these torrents of abuse was allowed to defend himself in any way or to cross-examine his accuser. Neither were the "defendants" permitted to read their prepared statements or to reply to questions with anything other than "yes" or "no" answers...
...would like to express an opinion as one who sympathizes with those who interrupted Mr. Eisler but doubts the wisdom of their action. I share their natural indignation at the misuse of the words "liberal" and "civil rights," as I share their revulsion towards those groups who try to cloak an anti-preparedness campaign under the attractive phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems to me that the issues at stake call...
...This fight is fundamentally one for men's minds. The effort must, therefore, be made by ideas which appeal to the aspirations of men's souls. With such ideas we will win; without these all the money and Cominterns and 'cloak and dagger' services in the world will fail...
Shea urged more students to check their coats in the cloak room provided for the purpose to the right of the main turnstile...