Word: concealments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's Government had long put off telling the French people the facts of France's economic life. Now it could no longer conceal them. To conserve coal, electricity in Paris was cut off for two days a week. To save meat, butchers were allowed to open their shops only two days, over the weekend. Drastic gasoline cuts made taxis a rarity. Bread was harder to get than at any time since World War I. The reason for all this: beginning Oct. 15, France will have no dollars to buy the things which she has not been able...
...longer skirts, any wise and well-dressed woman knows it is more appealing to conceal rather than reveal...
...Moola. They blinded Gus to Flora's shortcomings, but they could hardly conceal her size. "Although a large girl, Flora was scarcely more muscular than a hundred and fifty pounds of jelly. . . . She had the even disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were a bale of clover hay. . . . When Gus spent an evening at home she mooed with happiness." Gus liked the moos, but not as much as the moola. With an elephant borrowed from the city's amusement park, he hoisted himself into the circus business...
...conscientious and tries to conceal his feelings, he can be far more dangerous ... he will enforce it as a discipline...
...worried friend could not conceal his amazement: "You consider this a matter of course? You, to whom we look up as to one of our last real democrats? You, who know that our country was practically founded in America, and with American help? You want to join the Russians against the Americans? Why?" "Because I'd rather be taken prisoner by the Americans than by the Russians...