Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What got Chicago's vice squad into the act was an eight-page exposure in the June Playboy (circ. 1,250,000) of overripe Actress Jayne Mansfield. In bed and bubblebath, Jayne revealed everything except what an un-Sanforized G string might conceal. But there was nothing particularly unusual about that, for scores of equally nude "playmates" have appeared in the magazine in its 9½-year history. Why the pinch now? "Jayne has more than most," says Hefner by way of explanation. "She makes people nervous...
...trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...
...from this freedom, Conway said, is "the striving after excellence." At Harvard, a place "impressed by all outstanding achievement," the striving after excellence is "the final liberating element," for in the College "anti-intellectualism cannot be found; no one need fear to express an idea, and no one need conceal the fact that he has brains...
...restaurant's real trademark was the match game, immortalized by the late James Thurber in a panel of line drawings. Under the rules, any number of players conceal any number of matches up to three in their fists; whoever comes closest to guessing the total number of matches held by all the contestants drops out, and the luckless fellow left at game's end pays off. With customary flair, Lucius Beebe played with a set of solid-gold Tiffany matches while other customers settled for the plastic matches that Bleeck gave out by the thousands...
...Bottoms. To the sorrow of the thigh-heavy set, the new pant length is as brief and close-cut as possible. The once-dependable half-skirt (which could be tugged down to conceal an entire stretch of flab) is hard to find; in its place, for those who choose to accept the dare, is an abbreviated leotard which technically covers but scarcely conceals...