Word: concealer
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This fascination - this obsessive telling and retelling of the end of the world - does it conceal a secret longing for it to actually happen...
...need your parents less--and you're not shy about letting them know it. Children from ages 2 to 5 have yet to develop what's known as a theory of mind--the understanding that other people have hidden thoughts that are different from yours and that you can conceal your thoughts too. Without that knowledge, kids conceal nothing. "They love you," says Gopnik, "and they really, really express...
...investigation will look at issues like the use of intellectual-property rights, litigation and settlement agreements covering the E.U. - all subjects that companies tend to consider highly confidential and might easily withhold, conceal or destroy, Kroes said...
...opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used to make the biodiesel). As he scales a 500,000-gallon (1.9 million L) holding tank, plant manager Sid Watts can't conceal his pride. He points to the dock, where ships bring in vegetable oil from places like Indonesia and Malaysia, and to the rail terminal, where trains will help transport 100 million gallons (380 million L) of biodiesel a year to Imperium's customers. Watts is happy to see his refinery...
...Their relationship wilted under the strains of the arrangement. At one point, Anne Darwin said, her husband travelled to Kansas to pursue a woman he met on the Internet. She resented him for forcing her to conceal the secret from her sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, and tried to talk him out of returning to England. But "he had had enough of being dead," she said, adding that "John desperately wanted contact with the boys again and thought he could pick up the pieces of his life." Mark and Anthony Darwin issued a statement this week saying they felt...