Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, conservatives can barely conceal their glee over Thomas' performance. "The court no longer sees itself as the moral conscience of the nation bent on improving on the state of mankind," says Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar, approvingly. On the wall of Thomas' chambers is a Harriett Erlich drawing titled Freedom that shows three black children with outstretched arms. Thomas might ponder its message; his own liberation from the poverty of Pin Point, Ga., and his rise to the court would have been unthinkable without the body of liberal jurisprudence he now casts into doubt...
...more Quayle is derided for trying to address that need, however imperfectly, the less future politicians will try. Already H. Ross Perot thinks the word "principles" is nothing but a smokescreen to conceal one's values and positions...
...habits die hard, and former enemies may have trouble joining forces, even when their interests coincide. To many in Washington, the idea of allying with an intelligence service still aggressively seeking Western technology is anathema. As well-trained spies know, the cloak of friendship and cooperation may conceal the dagger of danger and deceit...
...might all be prototypes of a certain kind of Japanese aesthetics (the Japanese Book of Tea reads almost like a pure invention of Wilde's, with its "cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence"). Yet Wilde also saw that silver generalities conceal basic copper truths: "The actual people who live in Japan," he wrote, "are not unlike the general run of English people...
...pored over the forensic evidence, Wheaton became convinced that the plane had suffered a precrash explosion -- and that there had been a U.S.-Canadian conspiracy to conceal the cause of the accident. "If the truth about this crash had gotten out in 1985," he says, "it would have exposed the Iran-contra scandal one year before it became public...