Word: concealer
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...waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...
...course of [my] work I began naturally to form bonds of personal friendship and I had to conceal from them my own thoughts. I used my Marxian philosophy to conceal my thoughts in two separate compartments. One side was the man I wanted to be. I could be free and easy and happy with other people without fear of disclosing myself because I knew the other compartment would step in if I reached a danger point...
Said Reston: "An understanding between reporters and [Washington] officials on the obligations and rights of the reporter is imperative, but no such understanding exists today. Instead, responsible officials and responsible reporters . . . are now playing cops & robbers ... in Foggy Bottom*. . . The object of the cops seems to be to conceal information. The object of the robbers [should be] to disclose information . . . Both sides [wage] their own private little cold war [to] the detriment of the public...