Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demagoguery is denounced as the worst evil, plutogoguery is not denounced." Douglas' definition of a "plutogogue": one using "unworthy arguments in support of the wealthy and the powerful." Concluded he: "A lot of arguments which masquerade under the term of 'fiscal responsibility' are plutogogic arguments, which conceal the reality...
...Russia's 1959 census, which reported a population of almost 209 million (v. a pre-1956 claim of 220 million), seemed to confirm what Western experts had long suspected: for the first decade after World War II, Stalin deliberately sought to conceal from the West how badly wartime casualties (between 15 million and 20 million) had cut into Russian manpower...