Word: cloaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down. There was good reason for all the cloak & dagger precautions. Nothing affects the market price of cotton more than the board's prediction. A speculator who had the figure even an hour in advance could make a killing in the market. For example, in October, when the board scaled down its original estimate of a record 17.2 million-bale crop to 16.9 million bales and then cut it to 15.8 million in November, many a farmer was howling mad. Those who had sold at low prices felt cheated by the new estimate, which immediately started cotton prices rising...
...Belloc, a shrunken figure who walks his garden in a black cloak, has not practiced his "stinking trade" ever since the death of his son Peter...
...misled by the title of this one. Although advertisements say that "M-G-M presents the mystery of a missing person" there is actually no mystery at all, and everyone is well accounted for. The man with the cloak is Joseph Cotten, a dapper, frustrated poet, who foils a plot on the life and fortune of an old millionaire-actor...
Until next year, I suggest that you go back to reporting your classmates to the un-American Activities Committee, back to hiding dictaphones under piles of dirty laundry. If you practice your cloak-and-dagger tactics diligently, perhaps, when you grow up, you too can become Capitalistic Spies...
...outstanding liberal. Last Saturday the Governor proved the HLU wrong. He not only signed the Communist control bill within ten hours of its passage by the Legislature--an act that the bill's opponents call unprecedented for its haste--but he did so under such a cloak of secrecy that it looked as if he were ashamed of his own action...