Word: cloakful
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...cloak-and-dagger element always plays well on talk radio...
They'll study ways to keep Medicare afloat and the budget solvent, to address senators and the president and to navigate between the House cloak room and the Capitol Hill subway--all in the hopes of better governing a nation of 250 million citizens and better-spending $1.7 trillion in federal taxes annually...
...house, Nicholson began spending in ways that would be a conspicuous stretch on his agency salary. There were frequent trips to East Asia--where investigators say he was handing over information to the Russians--followed by unexplained payments to various Nicholson accounts. And in June there was his cloak-and-dagger passage through Singapore, this time under the eyes of a special team of U.S. agents, trained to track a seasoned operative, who photographed it all. According to an FBI affidavit that details some of the evidence against him, one morning Nicholson left his $300-a-night room...
...same time. The earliest pterosaurs sported long, bony tails that functioned as dynamic stabilizers. By contrast, later models looked more like birds, with their tails shrunken to stubs and their necks and heads greatly elongated. They lacked feathers, but their bodies were probably wrapped in a thick, furlike cloak. The range in size of pterosaurs was enormous. Some were as small and sprightly as robins, while others--like Quetzalcoatlus--were giants five times the size of a whooping crane, the largest bird in North America today...
...Word from Hebrew into Latin, grumbled that many of the narratives were "rude and repellent." A medieval rabbi, borrowing an image from the story of Noah's drunken disarray after the Flood (9: 21), suggested that "as dutiful children, let us cover the nakedness of our fathers in the cloak of favorable interpretation." Something of the sort eventually occurred. The Christian church developed a set of interpretations according to which the patriarchs prefigure Christians as heroes of faith. The Jewish Midrash, although more flexible and occasionally even playful, also strove to harmonize scriptural difficulties. Both approaches were developed as aids...