Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour dissertation on senility by the master, now nearing four years and twenty, all potential contributors weighed their 90 averages against the clamor of a well-read public, and have reneged "till the smoke clears." But we advocates of a free press stand in open defiance, from behind our cloak of anonymity, of course...
...seems that those who would heckle these people could Letter apply their energy in smoking out the rats who stroll forth under the cloak of church or civic respectability and copulate freely on a clandestine basis...
Bombs splattered over this Gauguin landscape, and presumably naval gunfire added its voice to the destruction, but the U.S. battle fleet wrapped itself in a cloak of radio silence-which left the damage done, and the fleet's further operation, an incompleted tale...
...Rumania to get in return northern Transylvania, which Hitler had transferred to Hungary in 1940; to remain sovereign and nonCommunist; to be occupied by U.S. and British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
...honored ranks of the warrior classes last week were admitted the little people of Japan, the ragged and hungry factory workers. It was an admission that this was total war, and all Japan was told that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight...