Word: concealments
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...Wherever Sing Sheng is now, I hope he reads this letter, and can eventually bring himself to accept its assurance that not all of us are like these so-called Americans whose chatter about property values and non-Caucasians fails to conceal their underlying prejudices...
With mock surprise, the Prime Minister wondered why Parliament had not been told about this great development. "The Conservative Opposition would certainly have supported the government . . . Nevertheless, the [Socialists] preferred to conceal this vast operation and its finances from the scrutiny of the House not even obtaining a vote on the principle involved, while, at the same time, with Machiavellian art, keeping open the advantage of accusing their opponents of being warmongers...
...about Herriot's speech. Why had he avoided tributes to Ducreux's wartime services and his promising political career? And, at the funeral, there was no honor guard, no wreath from the Assembly. Something was amiss, something which well-intentioned old Herriot had been at pains to conceal. After ten days of buzz-buzz in the corridors of the Assembly, Paris-Presse broke the story. Deputy Ducreux had not been Deputy Ducreux: his real name was Jacques Tacnet. Why had he changed his name...
According to an announcement issued by the department's faculty, it will now be "standard practice to conceal or disguise the identities of contemporary persons, places, institutions, or events that are centrally concerned in the thesis...
...Said Eccles: "I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability...