Word: conceal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to total disarmament, the report went on, Communists could gain world supremacy through easy-to-conceal production of relatively few weapons. But the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
...NATO's Commanding General of Allied Forces, Central Europe, to point out last week that "apart perhaps from the U.S. and Canada," many NATO members "have not kept their promises," are guilty of "moral disengagement." If this continues, he added, "General Norstad and I will be obliged to conceal no longer the fact that we cannot carry out our mission. The Belgians and the Dutch are not usable for the moment. The French forces are in Algeria." Furthermore, NATO's 30 reserve divisions, theoretically ready 30 days after the start of hostilities, do not for all practical purposes...
...doctors hooked her up to an artificial kidney. But instead of letting her blood circulate through cellophane tubing in a chemical bath, and relying on the solution to remove the poisons, they wheeled a donor into the treatment room. The donor: a 130-lb. ewe, heavily draped to conceal its identity. From a neck artery and vein the doctors hooked up the ewe to another cellophane tube. This was wrapped around the tube through which the patient's blood circulated, and the two rested in a plasma solution to serve as an intermediary in the exchange...
Either way, the European allies were hard put to conceal their current mutual distrust. On one side were what De Gaulle called the "Anglo-Saxons."* Britain's idea of its special relationship with the U.S. was keenly resented by De Gaulle and suspected by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The British, in turn, saw in the close alliance between Bonn and Paris and in the growing unity of the six Common Market nations a move to isolate Britain from the Continent...
Cannibals with Manners. Five years ago Bishop Arkfeld launched his most ambitious experiment by founding the Sisters of the Rosary of Wewak. Today the roster includes 30 native sisters and novices (average age: 21) whose royal blue habits and white headdresses do not conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal origin. As nurses and teachers, they help the white nuns in the region, who constantly fan out to outlying parishes, get around on horseback, motorcycles or Jeeps, ford streams on oil-drum rafts, shoot snakes and birds of prey that threaten the mission's poultry flocks. So pleased...