Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very best grey flannels as he received Western foreign correspondents for the first time since 1948, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was at his most disingenuous. Genially he told reporters that all Communists want is peace and work, land and bread. In the southern provinces the Reds, to conceal themselves, were designating their party tickets with such symbols as a resurrected Christ, a St. Anthony...
...those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place of a generally worn garment by which they endeavor to conceal their inches and hold up their stockings," and which usually costs a good deal more...
...Wherever Sing Sheng is now, I hope he reads this letter, and can eventually bring himself to accept its assurance that not all of us are like these so-called Americans whose chatter about property values and non-Caucasians fails to conceal their underlying prejudices...
With mock surprise, the Prime Minister wondered why Parliament had not been told about this great development. "The Conservative Opposition would certainly have supported the government . . . Nevertheless, the [Socialists] preferred to conceal this vast operation and its finances from the scrutiny of the House not even obtaining a vote on the principle involved, while, at the same time, with Machiavellian art, keeping open the advantage of accusing their opponents of being warmongers...
...about Herriot's speech. Why had he avoided tributes to Ducreux's wartime services and his promising political career? And, at the funeral, there was no honor guard, no wreath from the Assembly. Something was amiss, something which well-intentioned old Herriot had been at pains to conceal. After ten days of buzz-buzz in the corridors of the Assembly, Paris-Presse broke the story. Deputy Ducreux had not been Deputy Ducreux: his real name was Jacques Tacnet. Why had he changed his name...