Word: concealing
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...family member disabled by the disorder can destabilize an entire household, a single diagnosed case can mean several collateral victims. Worse, OCD is a condition that often masquerades as other things. It is routinely labeled depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, even schizophrenia. Victims often conceal their problem for years, ensuring that no diagnosis--right or wrong--can begin to be made...
That's not to say all is transparency and light in Washington. Dick Cheney's now infamous reclassification of his office away from the Executive Branch to avoid added scrutiny shows an Administration that is still driven to conceal...
...conspiracy writer, David Lifton, offered a way out of these inconvenient findings: in his 1981 book, Best Evidence, he contended that conspirators had altered the President's body to conceal evidence of an entry wound from the front. Others note that Kennedy's brain has not been examined by anyone, except superficially by the autopsy doctors. Robert Kennedy did not turn it over to the National Archives with other autopsy evidence in 1966. He presumably did not want it preserved as a grisly artifact...
...sounding board is Debbie, who has issues of her own. In a word, she's a bitch. Ben's friends might diagnose Debbie's condition as a severe case of PMS, and they wouldn't be far off, if the P is for Perpetual. She hardly tries to conceal her hatred of men, and her husband in particular: "I get worse-looking and he gets better-looking. It's so unfair." Her theory of getting men to do a woman's bidding - "You criticize them a lot, and then they get so down on themselves that they change" - sounds like...
...White House did nothing improper in the controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys last year, why would top officials in the Justice Department, perhaps including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have tried to conceal its role in the dismissals...