Word: concealing
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...faced the nation on TV. But Watergate still kept growing like a malignancy. Within less than a week after Richard Nixon had solemnly denied any personal involvement and promised to see justice done, one of his ousted aides threatened to implicate the President himself in a conspiracy to conceal White House involvement. The charge, whatever its ultimate authenticity and force, was only the latest of an incredible series of revelations and accusations that clouded the President's ability to govern and produced an unprecedented moral crisis for his Administration...
...Watergate plot, there seemed no reason for him to refrain from telling Nixon which officials had ignored him and gone ahead. The Washington Post reported last week that Nixon had, in fact, been warned at least three times, beginning in January, that his White House aides were trying to conceal their advance knowledge of the affair...
...other conductors around who could pass the Allies' denazification screening. As head of a major European opera house. Solti had exactly one work in his conducting repertory -the 1938 Figaro. No one in Munich knew that except Solti and. as he recalls now, "I took great care to conceal my rather limited repertory. It was not for several years that Munich began to discover that I was conducting everything for the first time...
...sternly administered and applied with equal severity to all. He assailed soft judges and Supreme Court decisions that enable criminals to go free on technicalities. Now his closest official associates are suspected of not only violating federal laws but also trying to subvert the judicial system to conceal their wrongdoing. One high Administration official was moved to an exaggerated lament: "I don't know why any citizen should ever again believe anything a Government official says...
Present accounting practices conceal the true financial status of most universities and allow treasurers to point to deficits which are meaningless, two Cornell University accounting professors said in a paper made public this week...