Word: cloaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approximately 90% cloak and. 10% dagger...
...Richter made no public appearance. Instead, Juan Perón issued a decree placing the entire Huemul Island atomic energy program under his own direction. On top of that, Professor Cornelius Jan Bakker, a leading Dutch nuclear physicist, arrived at Huemul Island under a dense cloak of secrecy. He was apparently brought in as a result of recent talks between Perón and The Netherlands' good-will ambassador, Prince Bernhard...
...ironic phrase. The movement of Soviet forces into Sinkiang, the realities of 'joint exploitation' of that great province by Moscow and Peiping, the separation of Inner Mongolia from the body politic of China, and the continued inroads of Soviet power into Manchuria under the cloak of Korean aggression mean in fact that China is losing its great northern areas to the European empire which has stretched out its greedy hands for them for at least a century...
...dictators. Argentina's lawfully elected President is passionately addicted to legalising he will go to any lengths, however ludicrous, to accomplish his ends in a "legal" way. As a result, his five-year regime has been marked by surprisingly little rough stuff; his formula has been approximately 90% cloak and 10% dagger...
...with the increasing cost of living at college. Many students, especially those on scholarship, are simply unable to afford the expense of providing outside diversion on an informal date. The House common rooms, even if they were opened in the evening, are more suited to the atmosphere of a cloak room...