Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the cloak & dagger Office of Strategic Services, now a Manhattan attorney, plunked for Eisenhower...
Naturally it would be understandable if the names of those board members quoted were disguised to enable them to keep their protective cloak and save them any public embarrassment. David Shapiro...
...Many of the precedents, he pointed out, were based on specific laws. As to those without authority of statute, "it is difficult to follow [the] argument that several prior acts apparently unauthorized by law, but never questioned by the courts, by repetition clothe a later unauthorized act with the cloak of legality ... I disagree." Then, in a series of blunt paragraphs, Judge Pine rejected the Administration's whole philosophy of government by expediency. Wrote Pine...
...another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a write on your back and no money to take it off." This was greeted with stony disapproval by the struggling cloak-and-suit industry of the colonies...
...youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people...