Word: concealments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to one story going the rounds last week, Maurice Thorez hired a make-up man to conceal the damage to his face-to save himself embarrassment in the National Assembly. Hero Laurent, interviewed in his barracks, commented: "I used to know this damned vodka rather well, but I'm no longer in the habit of drinking it. I must have been bien soûl [pretty plastered], and somebody must have said something I didn't like. So I hit him. Then in return they beat me up; I guess they had to suppress me, after...
...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...
...first place, he argues, science enjoys "a total lack of authoritarianism . . . accomplished by one of the most exacting of intellectual disciplines. [The scientist] learns the possibility of error very early. He learns that there are ways to correct his mistakes; he learns the futility of trying to conceal them...
...conclusion must be that the undergraduate takes the horrors of examinations period more in stride nowadays, and that the haggard faces around the Yard conceal nerves that are steely. Perhaps the empty Stillman beds are indicative not of the lull before a storm, but of a basic undergraduate sturdiness, which now seems to be not entirely due to the predominance of older...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...