Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keats, but in the context of TKP's songs it works as well as any rock and roll lyrics ever have, setting up a mood and a mode while complimenting your intelligence in the process. Sometimes the slow triplets--TKP loved to play triples, for some reason--even conceal a useful, if cynical, epigram: "In all events considerations reach a point where resignation seems a way of getting everything you need..." introduces, mildly enough, a song whose chorus is a swell of despair. "I find/Words/Fail...
...that Jewish militants were shadowing Jackson, that he had received death threats and that his family had been harassed -- facts confirmed by the FBI. Until then, Farrakhan's speeches had reviled white people, not only over slavery but also over what he sees as a vast white conspiracy to conceal the glorious past of blacks as the original human race and the founders of most branches of civilization and scholarship. But he had not singled out Jews for special vilification until his Savior's Day speech that year, when he tried to intimidate Jackson's harassers: "If you harm this...
...months early, in April, in exchange for an official tribute from the Pentagon meant to clear him of wrongdoing in the Tailhook scandal. Earlier this month, a Navy judge dismissed the last three Navy Tailhook cases on the grounds that they had been tainted by Kelso's efforts to conceal his knowledge of the affair...
...this year all that gauze and grace will not conceal the fact that skating has been marred by the spectacle -- part crime show, part soap opera -- of Tonya Harding, her spooky husband and seedy associates all blaming one another for last month's attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding is determined to skate -- and by braving the court with her case has made sure that the U.S. team remains Harding and Kerrigan. Now, sports officials are looking for ways to have the star-crossed duo practice separately until the women's figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise...
...have to conceal things," agrees a senior woman. She occasionally resorts to deception, however. "I've taken bras: you go in, you put on a bra, you put your shirt on, and you leave," she says. "It wasn't a color I would have bought--it was a kind of beige...a sturdy bra," she recalls...