Word: concealment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Schmidt is a senior adviser to McCain. So he's working against his understudy Kevin (Maddog) Madden, 34, who moved to Boston this week to be Romney's press secretary. Madden, whose slick GQ looks conceal an NBA metabolism, handled Bush-Cheney press for the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. "There's a civil-war aspect to it," he says of the new teams. "In 2004 and all the way through the 2006 cycle, these were your brothers and sisters. But you have to remember that your job is to serve the candidates and their ideas...
...watching - and see a creature of preternatural poise. He already has the disquieting gift of lowering the temperature of any room he enters. He is armed, by birth and training, with courtly courtesy; it would be called charm, if he were human. These impeccable manners do their best to conceal two of the lad's salient traits: his contempt for people and his almost artistic curiosity in how he might hurt them...
Capt. Evans: I was out in Brighton and we got three individuals for holding up a McDonald’s with sawed off shotguns. They sawed it off so that they could conceal it, and so that it was more dangerous. They had tied up everyone inside the McDonald’s and we had a lengthy car chase, and we were able to apprehend them...
...Maliki's government, on the other hand, could scarcely conceal its triumph. In a statement, the Prime Minister, a Shi'ite, said the "justice handed out to [Saddam] is a response to the call from thousands of sons and sisters of those sentenced and executed by [him]." President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, declared that the trial was fair, because the defendants "had the full right to say what they intended." If the review panel upholds the sentence against Saddam, Talabani must sign off on the execution. Although he has said he is on principle opposed to the death sentence...
...problem. The idea of trying to pass had begun to trouble me. It made me feel as if I had something to hide or be ashamed of. When I started to go bald, I shaved my head. No comb-overs, transplants or toupees for me. So why try to conceal a handicap? I was now proud of how I had lost my hand. The stump had a story to tell, regardless of my motivations for grabbing a grenade. Why not draw attention...