Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Committee had a name for such procedure. "I regret to say," said its chairman, "that some Government officials do their best to conceal the inefficiencies and whitewash the failures of the contractors...
...farewell piece for Clark Gable, now a corporal in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach. If he lacked stomach for the job (he has made no other picture since the death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash last spring), he tries manfully to conceal the fact, does more than his share in turning out a typical Gable show, loud, expert, witty, rough...
...army, candidates have worked out a rogue's repertory for concealing disabilities. Concealment becomes especially ingenious, says Dr. Hulett, among candidates for West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force and Submarine Service, where physical standards are unusually high. "Even if the examiner discovers a defect, despite the effort to conceal it, a candidate will often argue its insignificance to the point where you will almost be persuaded to delete such from your report. Beware. . . ." Epidemics of concealed ill-health break out whenever army groups prepare to travel. Reason: seasoned soldiers fear nothing more than separation from their comrades...
...trying to get into the army often conceal bad eyesight by memorizing the letters on test charts (famed Flyer Quentin Roosevelt did so in World War I). Doctors must also be prepared for men who take opiates to stop diarrhea, barbiturates to reduce blood pressure, digitalis to correct an abnormal heart, etc. Concealment may succeed for years. An epileptic stayed in the regular army for years and became a technical sergeant, because his fits always came at night and his barrack-mates helped him conceal them. Eventually he had an attack during night field exercises, and army doctors retired...
...possible, was while Hitler's mightiest armies were still tangled with Russia in the east. It is an opportunity, said one correspondent, "that may not recur;" and if not acted upon, "would cause a reaction fatal to Anglo-Soviet relations. It would be vain to attempt to conceal that there is now a very considerable popular impatience-and public opinion has become a powerful force in the Soviet Union...