Word: concealments
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...billion aid program for next year, and the 250-164 vote was hailed as another triumph for foreign aid. But this time the cries were so loud and the kicking so hard that the U.S. aid bill took a drubbing that not even the top-heavy vote could conceal. For an angry Congress, one member of the House summed up the prevailing attitude toward nations who receive U.S. money: "If they knock us, cut off their...
...Caudillo defeated the Republicans. You use the word Republicans to conceal the fact that Franco drove the Communists out of Spain and saved all Europe from Red occupation...
...Nordness went about his work, other dealers began to speculate about just what he was up to. Since Johnson wanted to conceal his name lest prices soar, Nordness had put it out that he was buying...
...Gaulle and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville demurred politely. The question, said Couve, is not "actuelle" (current). After all, he pointed out, it will be at least 18 more months before France's nuclear force is ready for action. Couve's cool reply could hardly conceal France's glee that Rusk had made the request. For years, De Gaulle and his military men had been seeking a bigger say in Western strategic planning. Now the U.S. itself seemed to be suggesting just that...
...LICHTENSTEIN, 38, of Highland Park, N.J., started his fine-arts career painting semi-abstract versions of Remington's cowboys and Indians, and later began to conceal comic-strip cartoon characters inside abstract-expressionist paintings. "This led me to wonder what it would be like if I made a cartoon that looked like a cartoon." In addition to cartoons-on-canvas, he began painting household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common...