Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant held up a piece of thick wood, about two feet squared. It was designed to fit into the floor, with hinges on the inside. In the event of a raid, the gamblers threw the phones into a hole and slammed the door shut to conceal them. In closing, the trap door also threw a lever switch to disconnect the phones...
Next day London newspapers were full of Dr. Helai. Not bothering to conceal their shock, they quoted him at length, and one carefully dusted its hands of his conclusions. Warned the News Chronicle, in an earnest footnote: "Doctors agree that opium eating or smoking is definitely harmful for Western people...
...felt, and failed to conceal, an utter contempt for the Old Bolsheviks' sentimental, old-grad memories and their pious reverence for the prophets Marx and Engels. "It is impossible to believe," wrote a British observer, "that there is no contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin...
What were the mysterious blips? The Air Force, unless it was trying to conceal some mysterious gadget of its own (e.g., a radar countermeasure), was as baffled as everyone else. As might be expected, the phantom invasion touched off a whole new rash of flying-saucer stories. But if the men from Mars were really overhead, the oddest part of the whole strange story was the fact that among all the conflicting reports, no radar outside of a ten-mile radius in Washington reported seeing anything unusual at any time...
...conceal their true functions, officers and enlisted men have been given police ranks, but each parallels an army rating. The 24 Vopo commands will eventually become 24 full divisions...