Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like pork?" "Oh yes!" the little girl replied, "I like pork. But we shouldn't eat it so quickly." The fact is that Red China is in the grip of famine. The dimensions of the trouble are impossible to measure because of Communist efforts to conceal the facts, and because of China's ancient indifference to statistics. But a careful culling of local newspapers shows the significant details of China's misery...
Villon's father, a stern Norman notary named Duchamp, sent him to Paris to study law. The youth took up painting instead, changed his name to conceal the fact. Later, two brothers and a sister joined him on Montmartre. One, a cubist sculptor, called himself Duchamp-Villon. Painters Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase} Duchamp braved their father's wrath by using the family name. Marcel was by far the most successful artist of the family, but he was bored by his work. He finally gave up painting for chess...
...distance from home by being as American as possible." When the 16-year-old Reischauer came to the United States and Oberlin College in 1927, he was therefore prepared for baseball, basketball, and varsity tennis. Whenever his Japanese background did get in the way, he tried to conceal it. "When I hitched rides. I used to make up a lot of false home towns so I wouldn't have to go through a lot of stuff about coming from Japan," he recalls. Still, his interest in the Far East was strong, and he found it "only natural to think about...
...next to the last day of the conference Chou, in simple, unadorned language, delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of diplomatic dexterity. Skillfully, he conveyed the impression of a man of candor with nothing to conceal, a man of principle who was not apologizing for his convictions but ready to admit other views were possible. If some delegates were wary of the term "peaceful coexistence" as a Communist phrase, "we can then change the term," said Chou, suggesting the U.N. charter phrase "live together in peace." China was opposed to "formation of ever more antagonistic military alliances...
...again-even though the danger that any large number of New Yorkers would take to worshiping the statue was, admittedly, minimal. As a result of diplomatic iconoclasm, the Newark stonecutter who repaired the statues was asked to take Mohammed quietly away. The other statues were closed up to conceal the gap, and now Zoroaster has Mohammed's old place on the southwest corner, facing toward Staten Island...