Word: conceal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every morning deckhands check the barges for leaks. It takes Phil Popham. 23, about 30 minutes to inspect the 15 barges hooked up to the Cooperative Vanguard. He moves gingerly across each slippery deck, shovels snow from the manhole covers that conceal the eleven-foot-deep buoyancy compartments, and peers inside with his flashlight for telltale ice or water. He passes the rest of the day reading dog-eared copies of Playboy, Popular Mechanics and western novels by Louis L'Amour...
...19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect of sex that diverged from the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply, they taught, was immoral and therefore must not happen...
Moreover, without a strong and trusted press, people would have almost no way to keep their government and other big institutions honest. Government, particularly the Federal Establishment, has vast powers to mislead the people and manage the news. Officials can conceal impending actions until their effects are irreversible. Other big institutions-corporations, unions, hospitals, police forces-prefer to cloak their decision-making process and their performance from the scrutiny of the public, whose lives may be deeply affected. And despite the passage of shield laws to protect journalists from having to reveal sources, they are regularly subpoenaed to testify about...
...such Schiavone ghost worker testified against Sanzo and Petito. A former blasters' union bookkeeper who took the stand last week said that Sanzo had cashed paychecks made out to no-shows. The defense claims that the no-show scheme was really a matter of "other-shows": to conceal extra income one hardhat would work under a colleague's name...
Indeed, until last week, security at the Capitol was almost alarmingly lax. Police officers at various entrances checked only packages, briefcases and handbags, thus making it easy for a would-be saboteur to conceal weapons or bombs inside clothing. The gallery-entrance metal detectors, moreover, were far more primitive than those routinely found at airports, and incapable of picking up plastics or other nonmetal weapons or explosives...