Word: concealments
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...graffiti, polemics and school lessons." He goes on to find history "less an attempt to record and understand than a habit of reordering inconvenient facts; it is a process of forgetting." Naipaul understands that Eva Peron, the brunette who dyed her hair blonde, whose autobiography is ghost-written to conceal an illegitimate birth, is the appropriate symbol for a nation which has forgotten its beginnings...
...furnished the first floor with expensive antiques borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution and spent some $25,000 on renovations. These included an elaborate alarm system (to protect the antique furniture, the reporter-landlord was told), new chandeliers, other lighting fixtures, and a false ceiling in the basement-presumably to conceal TV cameras and microphones. On a visit, the reporter found a locked door off the base ment recreation room...
...occasionally dressing like a race track tout (garish plaid suit, green and black loafers, pearl and diamond stickpin). That is, until 1978, when Wilson gained national headlines for his part in the "Koreagate" scandal. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct found Wilson guilty of lying to conceal the fact that he had received an illegal cash gift of $1,000 from Tongsun Park, the Korean influence peddler, and the entire House voted overwhelmingly to "reprimand...
...Aswan's Oberoi Hotel on the Nile might have been old friends planning their next family vacation together. But the impression was deceptive. For Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, the relaxed atmosphere at last week's summit could not conceal troublesome problems ahead in giving "momentum to the peace process," as Sadat put it. The two leaders agreed to establish formal relations between Egypt and Israel on Jan. 26, in accordance with the timetable laid down at Camp David. But Begin and Sadat remained far apart on the nature...
...Carter's Republican foes eagerly ripped into the President's handling of U.S.-Soviet policy. "It's time to take the gloves off," declared Bill Brock, the Republican National Chairman. "Mr. Carter's policy of patience is a policy of deception. It only works to conceal our weakness in the world...