Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color. He is wide-browed, broad-shouldered, stocky. Almost alone among the Red leaders, he has retained the white collar and tie, the neat dark suit, the stiffly worn fedora. As a concession to his proletarian environment he sometimes wears a cap. But not even the cap can conceal his indisguisable middle-class look...
...month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found him. At last, "muttering that they...
...Captain? No, it's Major Merriam now. It is not for the men of the command to comment on his production, but it would be difficult to conceal the pleasure with which every soldier under him learned the news...
From the competence of its camera work (much of it done in photo-effective Arizona sunlight) to the glossiness of its overall atmosphere (redolent of slick-paper magazine fiction), this picture is as Hollywoodish as it well could be. Once again, a packaging job of high sheen fails to conceal the fact that there is very little product inside. Worst error: Akim Tamiroffs irrelevant overacting of the part of an Egyptian hotelkeeper...
Giraud does not conceal his dependence on Murphy and the U.S. (at Casablanca, a memorandum supposedly prepared by Giraud for submission to De Gaulle turned out to be resting in Bob Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just...