Word: conceal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great deal more is necessary. Because of the mobility of guns, only federal laws can have any effect upon them. Rifles and shotguns - long guns - are not the problem; they make the best weapons for defending the house anyway, and they are hard for criminals to conceal. Most handguns are made to fire at people, not at targets or game. Such guns should be banned...
...fury that one of them, Bill Butler of the Audubon Society, warned his staff that Watt was too hostile to deal with right now. There were a couple of wildlife representatives at the meeting, and at one point, during a discussion about predators, Watt made no effort to conceal his strong feelings that coyotes should be largely killed off. "Maybe we can get Mrs. Reagan to wear a coyote coat," he said in a clumsy effort at a joke, noting that trappers and bounty hunters would get more business. The wildlife men winced...
...chandeliers in the palatial $250 million conference center glittered brilliantly, and fleets of limousines shuttled among 70 newly built VIP villas. But no amount of extravagance could conceal the divisions that plagued the 37 Muslim nations represented at last week's third Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia's mountain resort of Taif...
...paranoid sense that something major could happen at any moment." More than any story in years, the hostages tugged hard at journalists' hearts and patriotism. As Suro notes: "The old rule of 'No cheering in the press box' was difficult to observe." Indeed, few staffers could conceal a rooting interest. Says Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary: "What Carter and his people have wanted most of all is the moment of declaring the hostages free. For one, I am glad they may have...
...body after it left Dallas long enough to retrieve the actual lethal bullets; these, Lifton says, were fired from the front of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza, not from the book depository behind the presidential convertible. The schemers, Lifton continues, enlarged Kennedy's head wound to conceal evidence that he had been shot from the front; they added two back wounds, which had not been seen by some 13 nurses and doctors handling the body at Parkland. Yes, writes Lifton, this had to be a plot "involving the Executive Branch of the Government" and including at least the Secret...