Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned to cloak self-interest in moralargument and utilize rigidity to keep ambivalenceat bay," said Levine, who served as a navymidshipman in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...watch. Not to mention I have an odd fixation on this young woman whose father is a total geek. To top it all off, I am starting to speak compulsively in iambic pentameter (which is really getting on my roommate's nerves). I am such a mess. Even my cloak is inky. Help me anon...
Indeed, the fact that some despicable person hiding behind the cloak of anonymity is trying to ruin Gina Grant's chances for a productive life indicates that her past was not going to be kept secret. This disclosure made it clear that someone is keeping tabs on her and that, regardless of the rules of the juvenile court, she was not going to be able to obscure her past...
...Recession and War (Alfred A. Knopf; 371 pages; $27.50) seems like another planet. In the late 1930s and '40s, the word liberal was a badge of honor, not an epithet. Federal officials castigated "economic royalists," denounced predatory monopolists and seemed to regard the words free enterprise as a cloak for corporate exploitation. Big Business, not Big Government, was seen by Americans as the source of economic injustice...
...solution could come by way of a convention to which U.N. members would be expected to adhere. Proof of abuses might be hard to find and punishments still harder to determine and mete out, but at least spy agencies would have some incentive to decrease the scale of their cloak-and-dagger operations...