Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
Papal Carpetbagging. Lucrezia's big trouble was her family. Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, a crafty, sensual and deceptively charming Spaniard, got himself elected Pope in 1492 as Alexander VI. Alexander was an unashamedly worldly pontiff who made no effort to conceal Lucrezia and his seven other bastard children - indeed, thought nothing was too good for them. For eleven years, in one of history's most painstaking carpetbagging expeditions, he virtually turned the papacy and its pos sessions into a family preserve...
...jaunty character whose death, a fortnight ago, gave the writers a sentimental additional reason for voting for him. No. 72 was a steady performer, long overdue, who made it on popularity and merit. No. 73, an irascible immortal who never bothered, as player and manager, to conceal his dislike for baseball writers, finally made the grade in spite of himself...
...threatened ruin of the plan when the Czech U.N. Delegate and former lover of Mrs. Prescott inconsiderately drops dead in her bedroom. Nor without accepting the importance of the proposals, can the audience find credible the willingness of Mrs. Prescott's fellow delegates to remove the body and conceal the truth. The last scene of the play, however, betrays even those in the audience who have been suitably impressed by the proposals, since it wholly shifts the emphasis of the drama from the threat to the proposals to the threat to Mrs. Prescott's reputation, solely to make the conscience...
...Kalmus '56, a staff member of WHRB, had investigated the matter and had questioned Lunden about alleged ticket benefits to club members. Kalmus said Lunden admitted that all this term he had allowed clubs which requested seats together to buy them in advance. "I'm not trying to conceal anything," Lunden said last night after the facts were revealed. "A few clubs asked for this accommodation at the beginning of the year, and I gave it. I only considered it as slight generosity...