Word: concealments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have reached that point. There is hardly a newspaper society editor who does not conceal some adulteries among the women she writes about. There is hardly a police captain who hasn't talked to, admonished, and reluctantly sent to jail some of the confused little girls caught in raids on cheap hotels. For the chances are there. Said the pert little sprite in San Antonio: "Manless? Are you kidding? As for the girls in my crowd, it's a major one night, a captain another, and cadets and sergeants and corporals and, O Lord, whoever asked that question...
...with the idea of retiring to write his memoirs. He planned to sail along the China coast to the Dutch East Indies, writing where and as he pleased. He left on his belated adventure just before Pearl Harbor. How the Japs caught him, how he managed to conceal his identity, is a story that closemouthed Donald has still to tell...
...Soldiers." With bonuses and back pay the average private left the army with $250 in his pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper, "has encouraged tales of his whiskey-drinking abilities, [recklessness] and foraging [until] citizens believe that the army has acted as a school of demoralization...
...aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei was on the air, cackling : "The real cause of the war in Greater East Asia is so clear that even the British are unable to conceal the truth...
Persistent Mr. Shinwell unwarily agreed that he welcomed "anything that would do good for the common cause." The Prime Minister then scored a triumph of repartee if not of ideology. Said he, grinning at "Manny" Shinwell: "You have failed as a real opposition figure because you could never conceal your satisfaction when we win - and we sometimes...