Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of [my] work I began naturally to form bonds of personal friendship and I had to conceal from them my own thoughts. I used my Marxian philosophy to conceal my thoughts in two separate compartments. One side was the man I wanted to be. I could be free and easy and happy with other people without fear of disclosing myself because I knew the other compartment would step in if I reached a danger point...
Said Reston: "An understanding between reporters and [Washington] officials on the obligations and rights of the reporter is imperative, but no such understanding exists today. Instead, responsible officials and responsible reporters . . . are now playing cops & robbers ... in Foggy Bottom*. . . The object of the cops seems to be to conceal information. The object of the robbers [should be] to disclose information . . . Both sides [wage] their own private little cold war [to] the detriment of the public...
Jackson was ill when Healy painted him. He tried to conceal his suffering while the work was in progress, apologized for not being a better sitter. When the painting was finished Jackson examined it and remarked: "I am satisfied, sir, that you stand at the head of your profession. I feel very much obliged to you, sir", for the great labor and care that you have been pleased to bestow upon it." Nine days later the old. general died...
...Enthusiastic. According to "Georges Escoulin" (a pen name said to conceal the identity of a well-known Catholic writer who has traveled in America), the chief difficulty of U.S. Roman Catholics is an inferiority complex. Because the church arrived late in the U.S., he says, the big problem for the immigrating Catholic was to get himself accepted. For this reason he has had to show, "and prove by his whole behavior, that. . . he is devoted to 'The American Way,' that he has adopted it, and will, in turn, get others to adopt it." He has had no easy...
Swiss Dummy. Switzerland's Leader, A.G. had been formed by Bata Sr. in 1931, said Justice Schreiber, for the "admitted purpose of concealing his own ownership of Bata companies and assets outside Czechoslovakia" to evade income taxes. To conceal his own ownership, he had turned the shares over to Muska, lifelong friend and trusted aide...