Word: concealments
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...terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they sit by her side until death-and then find the visas have expired? "Would it be better for a pregnant woman not to mention the fact [to the consul]? Would it be better to conceal the seriousness of an illness or to exaggerate it? Was it wise to admit that the German commission might demand extradition if there was any further delay...
Pointedly referring to those who still oppose Tito and cry up Serb General Mihailovich, General Simovich said: "The slogans of the defense of the threatened Serbdom and of the struggle against Communism are only masks to conceal the personal ambitions of individuals . . . the interests of profiteers and grafters whose aims are opposite to the sentiments of the great part of the Serbs and to the common interests of the Serbs and of Yugoslavia...
...Pressure of public opinion rather than pressure of events precipitated the reorganization. . . . So the Department, with a repugnance that was hard to conceal, set to work. . . . The jaundice with which we regard it isn't due to the new organization, but has to do with the men in it. They are precisely the same persons who upheld the organization which has now been leveled to the ground . . . well-known names, rare in lore of various kinds, rich in experience, and ripe in years. In short, they are 'safe.' They could not be otherwise. . . . Surely the Department...
...German burgher, this was the blackest New Year since Versailles. No oratory, no promise of retribution could conceal the vast and calamitous defeat in the East...
...study. He was lean, tanned, lazy and alert, disconcerting without meaning to be, commanding without being arrogant, closemouthed, not because he wanted to conceal the truth from Victoria, but because it never occurred to him that she would want to know the plantation's hard life. He had married her two weeks after he met her. When he looked at her his amber-colored eyes warmed at the sight of her silvery beauty. When he saw her amazement at the museumlike rooms, where the antique chairs were like small islands on the ocean of faded carpet, his eyes danced...