Word: concealability
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...Wallflowers.) A book that came out this year, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes, revealed that in 1986, Dylan had a child with one of his backup singers, Carolyn Dennis, and later married her. Although they are divorced, Dylan says he never tried to conceal the relationship. "It's not private to me," he says. "I've never tried to hide anything. I mean, not that I know of. I don't have any skeletons that I don't want anybody to see." Speaking about Dennis publicly for the first time, he says...
...admitted it had misplaced more than 4,000 pages of documents that should have been given to McVeigh's defense team. Arguing that the government had perpetrated "a fraud on the court," the lawyers requested a hearing to determine whether the feds willfully withheld the documents in order to conceal exculpatory evidence--and whether the bureau is hiding additional evidence even now. It's a long shot, but what does McVeigh have to lose? If his motion is denied, and he is executed, well, he was already prepared to die; he dropped earlier appeals to hasten the event...
...tried to bypass the rules by disguising his date as a man, dressing her in dungarees, a worn jacket and a hat to conceal her hair. The couple failed miserably in evading the watchful eyes of the ushers-they were banished behind the goal posts...
...likely sneak nuclear, chemical or biological weapons into the U.S. through other means—say, a suitcase in a commercial plane. It is unlikely that a nation such as Iraq, Iran or North Korea would develop and launch a ballistic missile when much less-challenging and easier-to-conceal methods are available...
...cosseted Ivy League Last Man a chance to experience what a real man should experience, albeit in an artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse to the prissy methods of meritocracy...