Word: closet
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...remaining in the closet "required me to lie and deceive and dissemble," he said...
...voters by choosing Cabranes, his record on the bench is so moderate that he was also on George Bush's list of potential nominees. Though Cabranes has spoken sympathetically about the concerns of women and gays, Clinton would have to be thoroughly convinced that the judge is not a closet conservative in order to avoid repeating, in mirror image, the famous mistake of Dwight Eisenhower. The Republican President decided it would help him win the 1956 election if he gave a court seat to an Irish Catholic: William Brennan, who turned out to be one of the century's most...
...Widener [LAN] is our connection to the [High Speed Data Network]," said Diane L. Garner, the head of Gov Docs. "It's just some wiring in a closet that has to be finished...
...several achingly small inches, he might so easily had ended the valet's search up and down the closet for Augusta's newest green jacket...
There will be no fireworks because senators--their political allegiances notwithstanding--tend to coddle each other, to pat each other on the back. You needn't be a closet Kantian to understand their moral calculus: unearth unseemly moments in his past and he'll have his staff pore over your third-grade evaluations until your own paper-trail of moral excesses emerges...