Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles Times columnist, desperate to find some meat for the next day's paper, convinced a friend to get a tattoo at a cheap, back-alley parlor. Returning to his hotel, the columnist tried out his story on the bell captain. The bell captain could not conceal his horror. "You made that poor girl get tatooed?" he asked. "Just for a newspaper story...
There are only a few hundred documented cases of adoption or foster parenting by open gays. But many prospective gay parents conceal their orientation, so the actual number is surely larger. Gary Morin of Silver Spring, Maryland, found it much easier to adopt Jonathon, now 4, as a single parent than he would have as part of a gay couple. "I didn't have to worry about hiding a second person's clothes or pretending that I lived alone." Although exhausted by the demands of single parenthood combined with his job as a sign-language instructor, Morin is eager...
Against this background, I read with interest Lorraine Lezama's analysis (Crimson, August 17) of Pope John Paul II's recent American visit. And I both concur with and applaud the observation in her opening sentence: though it was a visually exciting spectacle, the visit did not conceal the Pope's uncompromising message. Human beings are more valuable for who they are than for what they have...
...recently concluded visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States was a visually exciting spectacle which did not conceal his uncompromising message...
Suddenly, sniper bullets spit into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...