Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees planted in and around the drill holes to conceal the site, moved the rig to a new location and left a worthless core on the ground to confuse any possible snoopers...
...this was done with little public fanfare, but U.S. military men could not conceal their satisfaction. Said Seventh Fleet Commander Paul Blackburn of the North Vietnamese: "Those people are not getting much sleep up there...
...fact, the 132 languages of the Indo-European family, among them most of the voices of Europe, flowered from the same ancestral roots. Their surface differences conceal a multitude of bonds, which, once recognized, can ease the monolingual traveler's way through the multilingual maze. This fascinating and infuriating book, by the author of the bestselling Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen, sets out to do just that. "Nowadays," writes Hogben, "neither school nor college courses within the English-speaking part of the world do much to divulge the many clues to word origin which...
...such statistics cannot conceal Nasser's failure in his long campaign to achieve Arab unity, or in his military campaign in Yemen that ties down some 50,000 Egyptian troops. His pell-mell "factory hysteria" resulted in a muddle of mismanagement and high costs. A Fiat assembly plant near Cairo employs 5,000 workers but turns out only 15 cars a day due to material shortages. The Helwan iron and steel complex produces rails that were turned down as inferior by Egyptian national railways and were finally accepted only on Nasser's insistence. At year...
...black community here was jolted by the horrible act, but the crackers can hardly conceal their jubilation, or at least good-riddance attitude. You should have seen the newspaper comments and television announcements. All of them right from the beginning have intimated that the Black Muslims killed him, which is so easy to be-live because of his rivalry with them. But some of the spooks" have grave doubts about the whole story. James Farmer has announced that he feels that Malcolm was the victim of an international plot. Ther are several fishy things that make it difficult...