Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European standards. In Europe corporate secrecy is not only a way of life but a game of wits aimed at confounding competitors, confusing authorities and keeping the public uninformed. With few exceptions, European companies report neither their total sales nor their true profits, and go to lengths to conceal their actual assets and holdings in subsidiaries...
...house on the Plaine des Jarres. the neutralist army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong Le restricted his troops to their base, ordered the Pathet Lao to keep out of neutralist encampments...
...trial continued its flamboyant way, the wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of all, Georges Watin, 39. nicknamed Boiteux (The Limper), who the police say was also the brains behind the Ecole Militaire plot. A French Cabinet minister, emerging from a meeting at the Elysée Palace last week, said worriedly to a friend: "Never has De Gaulle's life been in such...
...have nothing to conceal," cried God, "from those deeps of your passion...
...Senator from Idaho Glen Taylor, who runs the manufacturing end: "The Senator is always saying that the only thing that will stop hair from falling is the floor. But today a hairpiece is acceptable. It is the most brilliant conversation piece in the world, and anybody who tries to conceal it is crazy. I've personally never known any kind of social rejection when I said I wore one, but I've had some very strange reactions from people who found out when I hadn't told them. People hate to be fooled...