Word: conceal
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...usually overlooked that for a retired person, a new life begins: a new life with new opportunities and new challenges. So-called love for the job and the position one holds is frequently nothing but a mask to conceal mental lethargy and fear of change. Retirement at 65 is like the quality of mercy: it blesses him who retires and it blesses the unemployed for whom the gates to a productive life are finally opened...
...constant that knits them together is Mamet's ear, which is a precision instrument. He recognizes the shaping force of language-how it is used as a weapon or a shield depending on what a character wishes to convey or conceal...
Project leaders raise the consciousness of members by citing famous stutterers, among them Moses, Demosthenes, Darwin and Maugham. Members also learn about well-known "closet cases" who go through elaborate rituals and word substitutions in public to conceal their affliction. To the N.S.P., trying to cover up a stammer is bad; the handicap must be announced frankly and faced...
...novel as an art from is dying, one sometimes suspects when the gimmickry of a Tom Robbins or the verbal pyrotechnics of a Thomas Pynchon seeking to conceal an empty core are accepted by critics as serious literature, or when intimate and vulgar biographies of the great or the merely eccentric push novels off the bestseller lists...
Lance contended that he had not attempted to conceal anything. If the Senators did not pursue some of the matters in greater detail, he implied, that was hardly his fault. Indeed, it seemed naive to believe that an appointee should volunteer to a confirmation committee every piece of ammunition it could possibly use to deny him the office. Lance sharply denied asking any federal officials either to close the Justice Department investigation into his campaign overdrafts or to lift the Comptroller's sanctions against the Calhoun bank. The involved officials have supported Lance's denial. Although the criminal...