Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cloak for Timidity. The London Times insisted that the South Carolina dud merely proved that the dangers of radiation from such an accident were "practically negligible." In Parliament, 100 Conservative M.P.s submitted a motion rejecting "any proposal to renounce unilaterally the use of nuclear arms while sheltering behind the protection of the American deterrent." Snapped Prime Minister Macmillan: "I can admire those who advocate a pacifist approach to these problems. But I do not respect timidity under the cloak of spiritual feelings...
What the Kremlin appeared to be driving for, even at the price of making procedural concessions, was a new series of parleys for propaganda's sake. In these, surface impressions of East-West cordiality, leaders photographed together smiling, exchanging toasts, etc., would cloak the absence of any real thaw of the cold...
...musings of other mourners, the answer emerges. A gentle drunkard, Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...
...short, the Sullivans' advocacy of the proposal seems substantiated by little more solid than a desire to make the Basin appear a great deal more valuable than it now is. By spearheading the fight to cloak the land with an apparent mantle of industrial value, Mr. J.B. Sullivan stands to make a considerable profit...
Second, the cloak of security is all too often used to hide mistakes and inefficiency instead of genuinely confidential material. No one has ever gotten into trouble for over-classifying material, so the bureaucrats responsible naturally tend to err on the side of caution...