Word: concealer
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Lamont added that we could not conceal the fact that Russia does want world socialism, that it has a missionary spirit. However, he continued, "the Soviet Union does not want to embark on a military adventure...
Drawing the lesson that tanks will not advance where they cannot see ahead, Levy told how tanks were stopped in Madrid by blankets hung across the streets. Fearing that the blankets might conceal an anti-tank gun or a tank trap, the tanks stood off and punched holes in them with one inch shells, and "you can punch a helluva lot of one-inch holes, in a blanket," he said. "A man with hand grenades could beat a tank easily at close range and in such cramped quarters," he added...
...news of the U.S. raids on Wake and Marcus Islands (TIME, April 6) had been withheld for about four weeks-setting a precedent for the 35-day delay in the case of the Langley. But in the island raid there were plausible grounds for delay-to conceal from the enemy the whereabouts of the raiding task force until it had reached port and again gone out about its business. In the case of the Langley there were no such grounds...
...took the automobile to an expert Lincoln-Zephyr mechanic for examination when Snell had finally finished with it. Here it was revealed, the report stated, that the cylinder heads had been seriously scarred when Snell's men pried them off, and that the repair shop had unsuccessfully attempted to conceal the effects of this damage by placing excess gasket-maker between the heads and the engine block...
...Consumers' Aid Bureau summed up this matter in a statement in which they accused Snell, among other things, of attempt to deceive by the use of excessive gasket-maker to disguise the damage done to the engine head, by leaving the motor running upon delivery of the car to conceal the fact that he had worn down the battery, by suggesting a "motor-flush" cure-all when the engine still rau poorly after all his repairs, and by "general lack of respect for the intelligence of the customer or her agent...