Word: concealment
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...finally celebrated a world title after 97 barren years, but when they neglected to win another, he was discarded as too old. Benched in the third Series game against the Orioles, Rose got a glimpse of twilight. The Expos gave him a trial last year, but could not conceal that it was just a flyer...
...drinking, oh-I-get-drunk-all-the-time libertarian mode," who made her more socially conservative. But there was a twist. In 1984, in an article for the conservative Cornell Review, Coulter attacked its editor for writing, "Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they conceal is vital." "The message is clear," Coulter responded in her article. "The vital parts are the breasts and the vagina, so go get her." I was surprised to find that the piece made a standard feminist argument against pornography (an "atrocity" in which women are "exploited" and "dehumanized"). Its opening...
...much of Bergen-Belsen remains today. A 25-meter-high gray stone obelisk marks the site, rising above it like a baleful warning. Inscribed on its side is a singular commandment: EARTH CONCEAL NOT THE BLOOD SHED ON THEE! Fourteen long, low mounds of mass graves are marked simply, starkly: HERE LIE BURIED 1,000 BODIES; HERE LIE 2,500 BODIES. In 1975, then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin walked among the neatly tended graves of Bergen-Belsen and remarked bitterly, "It is so green that it is making me angry...
...better care of the remains than would the traditional owners, or who have recognized their potential value to illegal collectors. In response, the Queensland government last year passed some of Australia's most comprehensive laws on possession of Aboriginal remains and artifacts. It is now illegal for anyone to conceal the location of Aboriginal remains from the state government, or to possess them in any circumstance after the traditional owners have sought their return. Breaches can attract fines...
Rather than liberation, they had won a free trip to the Ad Board. “We decided to conceal ourselves away during closing time,” the student says, “emerg[ing] to frolic in the dim light of the library and the bright light of the books...