Word: concealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual relationship or charges that she had an overly rich fantasy life. She told the 23 grand jurors that during a period of more than 18 months, she was alone with the President many times, that they did indeed have a sexual relationship and talked about how to conceal it. She told them about the dark-blue dress from the Gap. And while reports of her testimony did not surprise many in the White House, even they don't know how tightly Starr has triangulated the days and nights of Monica Lewinsky...
...cynical if you want and point out that there were some ENGLISH ONLY T shirts at first, or that economic good times help conceal the bonehead hatred that exists everywhere. But it's not worth it. California's got economic good times too, and its anti-immigration conniptions make that state look like a backwater compared to what's going on here in Dalton of the rural South...
...knew it. Amidst all the camaraderie and laughter, there was a shared realization that, indeed, things could not always stay the same. We knew that as we grew older, opportunities to go bowling together would become much scarcer. And no matter how hard we tried to conceal it, we all knew, deep down, that we were new people with new friends and new lives...
...writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself, he gave the impression that he did. For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were not audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking...
...think when you're dealing with seriousallegations like this, the track record show it'smuch more often the case that the secrecy is usedto conceal an improper situation," Gerstein said."The knee-jerk reaction is always to handle thisprivately...