Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some popular rock-'n'-roll record. The result is a kind of contrapuntal dialogue. "The flying saucers," says a breathless announcer, "are real!" "Real." echoes a familiar rock-'n'-roll record a split second later, "Real, when I feel what my heart can't conceal...
Macken's stories are charming, but the charm, like the defense mechanism of the inkfish, is calculated to conceal the soft, sentimental underbelly from its natural enemies-in this case, people who don't like being codded...
Death of a Patron. Few campuses anywhere in the world have traveled more resolutely towards their goal over a more precarious road. Ewha was at first such a suspect place that its pupils went about in veils to conceal their identity. But the school did have one powerful patron-patriotic Queen Min, who in 1895 was to meet death in her own palace at the hands of Japanese infiltrators. By 1910, when Japan finally annexed Korea, the idea of education for women was so well established that Ewha began adding college courses...
...many little monsters are staggering around the range. So no one knows how many there are. Estimates of the proportion of dwarfs in beef breeds have gone as high as 7%. Some unfortunate herds have produced 12%, and the figures might be higher if cattlemen did not conceal their monsters. Considerably less than 12% of dwarfs can bankrupt a cattleman...
...acceptable professor. Nor need the University fear wasting a course on Bolshevik bias. If it invited a professor in any scientific field, except perhaps atomic physics, there would be little opportunity or reason for distortion. And a Soviet professor who taught history or literature would probably attempt to conceal any bias in an attempt to prove that Soviet scholarship is respectable. An American professor in Russia would attempt to prove that he was not blinded by bourgeois capitalism; it would seem that Russian professors, who are even more aware of following a party line, would also do their utmost...