Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of Johnson's messages were not very exciting. The Turks seemed politely receptive. If Cyprus' Makarios was impressed, he managed to conceal his feelings. Greece will certainly continue to be unhappy about the U.S. reluctance to bear gifts. But some time, maybe some time, the seeds of understanding that Lyndon Johnson planted may take productive root. In any event, it is worth...
...story was probably apocryphal, but the speed with which it made the rounds of Whitehall last week revealed the deep British exasperation at France's blocking tactics in Brussels. Just back from the talks, Britain's chief Market negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, could scarcely conceal his irritation with France over the stalemate on terms of Britain's Common Market membership...
...Year Low. When it was time for the vote, the Tories predictably closed ranks and won their automatic majority; the censure motion was defeated 351 to 253. But it was a vote for survival rather than a vote of confidence, and it could not conceal deep dissatisfaction both in the country at large and in the Tory Party...
...meticulous politeness Sam Newhouse does not quite conceal an oversupply of nervous energy. He characteristically sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...
...billion aid program for next year, and the 250-164 vote was hailed as another triumph for foreign aid. But this time the cries were so loud and the kicking so hard that the U.S. aid bill took a drubbing that not even the top-heavy vote could conceal. For an angry Congress, one member of the House summed up the prevailing attitude toward nations who receive U.S. money: "If they knock us, cut off their...