Word: concealer
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Domestically, the phony cost-of-living index, artfully manipulated to conceal the inflationary upcreep, has finally burst through its ceiling, setting off an automatic 5.5% minimum wage rise for 800,000 employees. With every allowance for crop failures, the cost of Suez and the price of Algeria's billion-franc-a-day war, said Gaillard, France's "fundamental" trouble is that "for several years our internal consumption has been rising more rapidly than our production...
Acquitted last April on charges of fatally drugging an eccentric lady patient who had willed him a Rolls-Royce and a chest of silverware, Dr. John Bodkin Adams last week pleaded guilty to 14 lesser charges. Among them: attempting to conceal two bottles of morphine; obstructing an officer seeking to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Act; forging other doctors' names to National Health Service prescriptions; falsely stating on three cremation certificates that he had no pecuniary interest in the patients' deaths. Total fines: ?2,400 ($6,720). Dr. Adams, 58, wrote out a check for it all, and returned...
Despite its strategic differences with the U.S. over China, the British press could not conceal a feeling of pedantic sympathy-much like that of a father who sees his child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America...
...play the tragedienne. Don't lie" -did Mamma finally admit what the whole Montesi clan had been trying to conceal-the fact that Wilma had often been invited out for rides by her Uncle Giuseppe, a 32-year-old government functionary who fancies himself a Don Juan...
...crowd is bored. But the mortal, final enemy of every bullfighter is his own fear, confronting him in the absolute form of the great black bull. And how is that fear to be conquered? By pride-Spanish pride. The script quotes the great Manolete: "It is not hard to conceal your fear when you are more afraid of appearing ridiculous than of dying...