Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that menace it today". Seven representatives of the most renowned educational institutions in the East should have been able to reach a basis for mutual agreement on this subject. But they merely returned with more of the same hypocritical assertions of "belief" that have served to veil but not conceal the real issue in the last three years...
...that this is wishful thinking: as a liberal he needs something to fight for and seeks it in a middle ground. For a politician, particularly a reforming politician, to be on the fence, weakens his position. Seldes therefore dresses his appeal in dramatic phrase which fortunately fail completely to conceal a fairly perceptive mind...
...accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs the terms of an armistice in which the British forces are withdrawn from patrol in the affected areas for a given period, allowing the Arab bands to demobilize, conceal their arms and hide their identity in the villages...
...burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists or other radicals had sown Manila with explosives...
Handing down a decision in favor of the pie-selling driver, His Honor Judge Edwin Max Konstam vigorously cried: "I know of nothing more shameful or un-English than to conceal such a device as this so-called 'testing clock' secretly in a van with a view to catching the driver loafing! It is perfectly legitimate to have an unconcealed clock device so installed as to record what the men are doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this...