Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universal custom for women to conceal their ages, but to deny two husbands and two kids-that takes the cake...
...Most of our daily life is directed not at what we do, but at what we want to conceal. But on the stage behavior has to be expressed intentionally, not concealed. This is the basis of the difference between drama and real life. And it is why true stories always make the worst plays, and why dialogue is the magic that will tell whether people are talking in life or on the stage...
Domestically, the phony cost-of-living index, artfully manipulated to conceal the inflationary upcreep, has finally burst through its ceiling, setting off an automatic 5.5% minimum wage rise for 800,000 employees. With every allowance for crop failures, the cost of Suez and the price of Algeria's billion-franc-a-day war, said Gaillard, France's "fundamental" trouble is that "for several years our internal consumption has been rising more rapidly than our production...
Acquitted last April on charges of fatally drugging an eccentric lady patient who had willed him a Rolls-Royce and a chest of silverware, Dr. John Bodkin Adams last week pleaded guilty to 14 lesser charges. Among them: attempting to conceal two bottles of morphine; obstructing an officer seeking to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Act; forging other doctors' names to National Health Service prescriptions; falsely stating on three cremation certificates that he had no pecuniary interest in the patients' deaths. Total fines: ?2,400 ($6,720). Dr. Adams, 58, wrote out a check for it all, and returned...
Despite its strategic differences with the U.S. over China, the British press could not conceal a feeling of pedantic sympathy-much like that of a father who sees his child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America...