Word: concealer
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...ability to publish such news and criticism will improve its ability to fight and preserve undiminished faith and courage. The dark flame of Winston Churchill's candor and its galvanic effect on the British people are mortally hated and feared by the Nazis, who try to conceal their mistakes until concealment becomes impossible...
Still the War and Navy Departments insisted that it is necessary to withhold news of casualties, to conceal movements of troops and warships. They reminded the press that all warring governments now suppress casualty lists...
...When an A.P. dispatch from Egypt, undoubtedly passed by the British censors, reported the establishment of a U.S. "arsenal" in Eritrea, the War Department belatedly described this as "essential military information" and asked newspapers to refrain from publishing it. This attempt to conceal information that was already public knowledge abroad-a good example of confusing the U.S. people with the enemy-was frustrated by the fact that U.S. papers had already published...
...German Fascist invaders calculated that they would, certainly be able to finish "with the Soviet Union in a month and a half to two months and succeed in this short period of time in reaching the Urals. It is not necessary to add that the Germans did not conceal this plan for a blitz victory. Quite the contrary. They advertised it in every way. The facts, however, now show how this plan was wrong. Now this crazy plan must be considered a complete failure...
...calm; he shuddered . . . at the prospect of moving house." To Lord and Lady Blessington who saw him just before he left, he made farewell presents, demanded "a corresponding gage d'amitie." He made "some sarcastic observation on his nervousness." He had wept "and made no effort to conceal his tears...