Word: concealments
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...freshman football team best Andover Saturday for the first time in three years, and Coach Henry Lamar afterwards made no attempt to conceal his pleasure at the 13 to 7 score...
Last week Attorney General Roy H. Beeler gave his opinion: yes. The attorney general could not conceal his deep uneasiness: "I am fearful that . . . strife and turmoil will be engendered." But, he concluded, "we in the South now have no other alternative. We must bow to the inevitable and go along as good citizens of the United States...
...became astoundingly clear Wednesday evening that Ted Husing knows next to nothing about boxing. If he does, he managed to conceal it with immense skill during his commentary for the television audience of the Louis-Charles fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. Husing's performance was especially unfortunate in view of the fact that 25,000,000 people watched the hout on television, while only 25,000 were in attendance at yankee Stadium, the scene of the fight...
...impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
Roughing It. Criminals originally coined cant (itself a 16th Century underworld verb meaning "to speak") to conceal their plans from eavesdroppers. When cant words pass into popular slang, as they do in the U.S. far more rapidly than Lexicographer Partridge seems to be aware, new mintings are made. Yet "the main body of cant is [more] conservative" than most people realize...