Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the succeeding decades % he passed increasingly precious secrets, at blood-chilling personal risk. In Moscow he brazenly stole from the GRU stockroom a special kind of self- destructing film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal his handlers, he would ride the tram past the U.S. embassy and activate a miniature "burst" transmitter hidden in his pocket. During postings abroad, he would pass information face to face: in the back alleys of Rangoon or among the bulrushes along...
...might to sound reasonable, Zhirinovsky could not quite conceal his real sentiments. He rejected accusations that he was anti-Semitic, yet a few sentences later he allowed that there were too many Jews among Russia's democratic forces. Nor could he help speaking disparagingly of non-Russians from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Zhirinovsky chastised Russia's new rich, but his entourage included two young bankers from St. Petersburg who were scrupulously recording the scene with a video camera...
...about sexual orientation. Yet many gays still fear that acknowledging their sexuality may hurt their chances for promotion, and stay closeted even at firms that vow equal treatment. A 1992 survey of 1,400 gay men and lesbians in Philadelphia found that 76% of men and 81% of women conceal their orientation at work...
...received a call from The Harvard Crimson. The editor who spoke to me told me that your paper was printing a review of A House Divided, the original musical I produced in the Agassiz Theater, and needed to know the name of the director. Attempting to conceal my surprise at this lack of basic information, I gave him his answer--Alexander Franklin--and then mentioned that the director's name was listed in the program. The editor replied that The Crimson had lost the program. (I believe "sort of lost" was the phrase the editor used...
...Walters allege that Harvard attempted to mislead the zoning board into premitting the expansion by trying to conceal the fact that it constituted a height increase...