Word: cloak
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...Byrd, history not only teaches the importance of rules and precedent but also offers warnings for the present. Deviation from democratic process can, he says, cloak an attempt "to dominate all branches of government." For that reason, Byrd says, "this Republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this Administration." He cites as an example the Bush Administration's efforts to seek greater discretionary defense spending free of congressional scrutiny. That doesn't sound so alarming, but for Byrd precedent is everything. And everything about the Iraq war--from the radical new doctrine of military pre-emption...
Soon after the decision was announced, McCarthy issued a harsh public statement against Pusey, telling the Boston Traveler in a letter that the new president’s political stance was “a combination of bigotry and intolerance behind a cloak of of phony hypocritical liberalism” and calling him a “rabid anti anti-Communist...
...horns accompanied her movement, pulleys lifted up her golden cloak to hide Zoninsein as she snuck out the back curtain of the stage...
...With the cloak suspended in mid-air, a new pair of arms flailed against the fabric and from the golden robe emerged Master of the Arts John Lithgow...
...Mathematics offers that, but there’s a cloak around it,” he says...