Word: concealing
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...doesn't chase rainbows," was an early campaign slogan. The result is a rather colorless campaign, though one that exudes competence. Bentsen seems all but devoid of regional or personal quirks. His urbane performance gives no clues that he is a Texan. Understated and restrained, he manages to conceal much of the inner man from public view. Says a longtime associate: "Bentsen is one of the hardest people in public life to get to know." Adds Calvin Guest, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party: "The problem is to communicate his great leadership ability. Groups he has spoken to often...
...Hemingway, could make textures and smells-the very rhythms of life-leap off the page. Why, then, did he come closer to success in his short stories (for instance, The Man Who Would Be King) than in his novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver...
...write it's bombing, bombing, bombing It's not bombing! It's air support." The classic of the war, of course came from the American officer who explained: "It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." In Nixon's White House, concealing information became "containment" I was wrong" or "I lied" became "I misspoke myself." And so on. Abuse of power is usually attended by abuse of language Viet Nam and Watergate, along with later revelations about the FBI and CIA, have encouraged a cynical, almost conspiratorial view that public words...
Unknown Fear. At the time, Eric Olson was nine, Nils was five and Lisa seven. Their mother conveyed to them her feeling that their father must have killed himself in a state of panic brought on by some fear that she did not know. The children tried to conceal the fact that their father had committed suicide. Nils would say that he had died "from a concussion," and Lisa told people that he had died in "an accident...
...Pollyanna-ish to say that we're always successful." It is of course impossible for Amnesty to find out about all the political prisoners in the world. After imprisoning someone for political reasons, governments are naturally not anxious to publicize the matter and usually do their best to conceal it. "We are only handling a miniscule amount compared with the problem," White concedes. Amnesty must still reject even some of those cases that come to its attention, due to sheer volume. "We're successful with those cases we take, but we can't take everybody," she explains. And when...