Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often be at odds," said Brucker, particularly when the government is engaged in a Cold War with a clever, secretive enemy. "Even so, we hold in our hands the weapon with which to conquer managed news. It is the same weapon that has always won against earlier attempts to conceal and manipulate. What is that weapon? It is the newspaper reporter...
...sense of responsibility...." Each of these categories is treated in a single chapter, and the entire book runs only to 155 pages. Such brevity on so sweeping a theme creates difficulties. The authors present their work in a wonderfully clear, concise style, but often their conciseness serves only to conceal complicated and important points. The book will excite specialists in American studies with its scholarship and its implications for further study. But a non-specialist can only be confused by sentences like this...
...flamboyant old Tory campaigner, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 67, a prairie trial lawyer at his best on the hustings and at his weakest in running the Government. Against him once again stood Nobel Prizewinner Lester Bowles Pearson, 65, an able man whose quick, shy grin could not conceal his distaste for campaigning...
Though he tried, Diefenbaker could not wholly conceal Canada's economic difficulties during the 1962 campaign. Canada's dollar, at a high of $1.06 U.S., had long been a hurdle to Canadian exporters. Instead of devaluing it (as the Liberals urged), the Government had uncertainly talked it down. Investors started pulling out. During the five months preceding the election, Canada's foreign exchange reserves plummeted $560 million, reaching a crisis low of $1.1 billion-despite Diefenbaker's panicked mid-campaign devaluation and pegging of the dollar to 92½ cents U.S. If the drain had continued...
...front is indeed a 'front'--in its literal sense, that is, a facade behind which the Communists conceal their designs from well-meaning and ill-informed people like most (if not all) of those 62 distinguished Americans who signed the letter (including 2 Harvard professors...