Word: concealments
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...Precincts. But Defendant Christie had committed acts which did not sound at all like those of an insane man. He had altered the date on a letter written to his sister-in-law in order to conceal his wife's death. He had taken money from his wife's bank, by forging her signature, sold her wedding ring and watch. When his dog had scratched up the five-year-old skull of Muriel Eady, he had dropped it one night in a bombed-out house. Summed up Justice Finnemore...
...brought him to a paragraph which was headlined as his answer to Joe McCarthy's campaign to purge State Department libraries of books by Communists or "controversial" authors (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said Ike: "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed . . . How will we defeat Communism un less we know what it is and why it has such an appeal for men . . .? We have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They...
They failed, defeated by ice, huge cliffs and a blizzard. But they did get to the top of Lenana Peak, more than 16,000 ft. high. There they planted an Italian flag, which they had managed to conceal throughout their internment. Then came the grueling descent, with the sick man a burden and with an almost complete lack of food. Eighteen days after they walked out, they staggered back into the P.W. camp. A humane British commander limited punishment to seven days behind bars...
...Spanish clergy, however, is not used to the Little Sisters' way of doing things. One rainy day this spring, Don Angel, the parish priest whose church is more than a mile from the settlement, sloshed through the mud for his first visit to the nuns. He could not conceal his disapproval. "My daughters, I hope you know what you are doing," he said, shaking his head. A high-ranking prelate, hearing of the sisters' work, observed: "Every country has its own traditions and customs. Here we preach the word of God and help the poor as best...
...tried to conceal the fact that the vociferous advocate of "big time athletics" had been summarily dropped...