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...proper use of the millions of dollars allocated for road construction with a view to the future, I am sure that our enormous traffic problem would never have occurred. Unjustly censuring the trucking industry and forcing them to pay for the mistakes of others is a poor attempt to conceal our lack of leadership and planning...
...targets of the Fifth Five-Year Plan are being successfully fulfilled," said he. As for the heavy arms burden, that would now take 20.8% of the budget, as against 23.6% in 1952 (western observers were thoroughly suspicious of these figures, knowing the opportunities the Communists have to conceal armament items in their budget...
...writings of Stalin. This kind of information is easy to get, not always easy to understand. Along with it, a nation will seek to know the enemy's specific strength (capabilities) and his probable course of action in specific circumstances (intentions). These specifics hostile nations usually try to conceal from each other. They must be ferreted out by "intelligence." The best definition of intelligence in the military-political sense is: "information which is hard...
Unhappy ROKs. Despite this bristling and ambiguous language, the U.N. Command was "very encouraged." Outside the tent, South Korean newsmen could not conceal their unhappiness at the U.N. concessions. Their argument: that the agreement is an open invitation to let the Reds cuff South Korea about at will, while the U.N. withholds aid of all kinds; the ROKs could suffer huge losses just on the say-so of the Reds that they had been attacked first, and the harm done before the neutral commission could decide the issue...
They honeymooned in Paris. On their first morning back in England, Philip donned his clerical disguise. When Penelope raised wondering eyebrows, he confessed: "I can no longer conceal from you that I am a curate ... I have basely deceived you . . . My only excuse is the greatness of my love." At which Penelope sprang from her bed, screaming, "I shall never forgive you! ... I will make you rue the day that you treated a poor girl in this infamous manner. I will make you, and as many as possible of your clerical accomplices, as much of a laughing stock...