Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors of news the government does not wish to be published for security reasons. Some of these matters are entirely petty, or so general as to be of no possible value to a foreign power. The system comforts only those, it seems to me, who require secrecy as a cloak for their blunders...
...unanimously elected diminutive David Dubinsky, 70, to his eleventh three-year term as president. Having brought the union from threadbare poverty (32,000 members, a $1,500,000 debt just before he became president) to silken opulence (assets of $425 million) in 30 years, the pudgy potentate of the cloak-and-suiters saw no reason why he shouldn't keep going. "Some people are old in their young days; some people are young in their old days," said he. "I feel that I can yet give service...
...austere and fanatically secretive protege of Founder Stein. Wasserman always dresses in black, and sees that his underlings do too. He is always accompanied by an aide who memorizes conversations so there will be a record of them in the event of Wasserman's death; in the best cloak-and-dagger style, MCA rarely keeps memos on any transaction...
...main gates. 100 uniformed, white-gloved Marines snapped to attention, their bayonets gleaming in the rainy night. And when the royal Iranians stepped out on the North Portico to greet the President and First Lady, the society reporters murmured audibly. The Shah was resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent of medals and decorations across his formal dress, but his sloe-eyed wife stunned the onlookers. "It was a matter of groping frantically for adjectives superlative enough to describe her gown and her jewels-the most blindingly impressive ever beheld in Washington." reported Maxine Cheshire in the Washington...
...Barth, the capitalist West is as materialistic as the Communist East-and represents a serious temptation to the church, since it tries to cloak its political ambitions in religious and moral terms...