Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even while they talked of the common danger that united them, the new allies could not conceal an overriding concern for the acute problem that divided them-the Israeli-Egyptian crisis...
...police station the assailant, 32-year-old Muzaffar Ali Zolgadr, feigned insanity in an effort to conceal the fact that he actually was an assassin on assignment. But on his undershirt, cops found two messages written in red ink: "The military pact and oil agreement must be abrogated and all Moslem rules enforced. Islam is above all." The second was from the Koran: "Those who get killed for God and for His rules are not dead but alive...
Shanghai is the biggest city a Communist regime has ever tried to digest. It has also proved the most indigestible. Tough, resilient, raised on the vigorous traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...spite of your repeated assurances that Egypt's Nasser is handsome, dashing and "carries his 200 Ibs. with lithe grace," and your remarkable statement that he is the only one who can prevent "massed retaliation" against the Israeli "aggressors," you can hardly conceal the fact that this military dictator and self-anointed "liberator" of the fatherland is now definitely on the skids . . . Since he can't cope with the trouble within Egypt's borders, he is stirring up trouble beyond the borders . . . This is the traditional method of dictators, and of those in the Middle East...
Felix's education began some early day in the perpetual childhood that was to be his life. It was then that he delighted to muse to himself, "I (can) not conceal from myself that I am made of superior stuff or, as people say, of finer clay." From this time on his life consisted of varying attempts to prove and demonstrate this thesis. His education consisted in learning new techniques for these attempts...