Word: concealment
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Minor Alterations. But privately the Arabs were so pleased with the overall tenor of Carter's remarks that they tried to conceal some of their pleasure, lest they give away a bargaining advantage. Declared one Egyptian official: "They told us he had no experience in foreign affairs, but these statements show that, at least on the Middle East, he has studied hard or has excellent advisers...
National averages are held down by lower costs in the nation's warmer areas, and conceal what aghast homeowners in places hit hardest by the Big Freeze discover when they open their latest statement from the local utility. Frank Joseph, editor of a Washington oil trade journal, saw his January bill more than double, to $161. Chicagoan Louisa McPharlin shelled out $328 for oil heating and had to forgo other expenditures, "like decorating the house." Roger Young, a 31-year-old New York City securities analyst, got a $320 January bill from Consolidated Edison for his six-bedroom Westchester...
...assembly, school meeting, or after dinner at summer camp? Sure you do. The guy usually had a great way with words: he had to. He had to cover up the fact that his team stunk the place out with its play time and time again. He had to conceal that opponents enjoyed playing against his team even more than watching a Three Stooges film festival...
...slovenly in their use of language that he who talks not just in parsable sentences but in well-constructed paragraphs can exert a magical force on his auditors, who generally realize too late (as Simon's do) that he is using words not to reveal but to conceal. He also uses them as he does his phonograph - to drown out the sounds of pain, to keep everyone at a distance from his precious, empty self. It is a perversion of language's basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which...
...fact, and the result is a thoughtful, sympathetic and above all scholarly rendition of a life. Launching his study with a discussion of the Cavafy genealogy, Liddell traces the poet's boyhood in Alexandria, London and Constantinople; his return to Alexandria as a young man; and his attempts to conceal his homosexuality from the Alexandrian society in which his family moved--despite their displacement from the upper-class Greek community to a state of near-impoverishment. The book is to a certain extent a biography of the entire family, for Cavafy (who never married, although he may have had heterosexual...