Word: concealer
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...taking any chances. The bus conductor, 30, prepares for his twice-weekly Kabul-to-Kandahar trips by exchanging his city outfit for the filthy tunic and voluminous trousers of a poor mechanic, the better to fool potential robbers. He rubs grease and dirt on his face to conceal from possible Taliban attackers that he is clean-shaven. These precautions, Saboor says, have saved his life. Just the other day, a gang of thieves robbed his passengers at gunpoint. Two weeks ago, Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus and slaughtered 27 men they falsely claimed were Afghan soldiers...
...former Detroit mayor is moving to a new home Oct. 28th - a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars and brought its political development to a halt...
Mazhar Hussain could scarcely conceal his delight. Revving the engine of his white pickup truck laden with over a ton of rice and spices, the 35-year-old driver from Pakistan-administered Kashmir says his dream would soon be realized. "I've never been to the other side of Kashmir. It is the land of my forefathers, our land," he says, with rising emotion...
...cannot be discovered when people are already living there. That Columbus was responsible for the death of an estimated 8 million Indians in the Caribbean alone. Though we may be ashamed of it, though it may frighten us, it does a disservice to the nation as a whole to conceal the truth, be it out of egotism or ambivalence...
...life feminist” movement, spearheaded by the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) is attempting to have it both ways. They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women. Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than a concern for women’s welfare...