Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harm; he doubts that 104° will cause any damage even over several days. And there are definite disadvantages in fighting the fever. Left alone, the temperature and its fluctuations are valuable clues to what ails the child. Diagnosis is hampered by antifever drugs, which may conceal important signs-most notably in rheumatic fever-and prove actually detrimental. Always present are the dangers of allergic reactions and overdosage...
After a quick study of the management proposal, McDonald replied: "I reject it out of hand." He accused the companies of a "publicity stunt," said, "Before the month is out [the industry] will be embarrassed by record riches which it can neither explain nor conceal...
...achieve nothing except by yielding gracefully, as the bamboo bends before the gale. There have been few Joan of Arcs or Molly Pitchers in the annals of Japan. Even the brilliant Lady Murasaki, who wrote the famed Tale of Genji early in the 11th century, felt it necessary to conceal her accomplishments. The only heroic-sized woman known to the Japanese is the legendary Empress Jingo, who supposedly conquered Korea in A.D. 200-but Koreans indignantly assert that absence of records proves she never existed. Until 1923, Japanese law declared that "women, children and mental defectives shall not be associated...
What is more ominous is the apparent ease with which the government rid itself of all qualms about the International Geophysical Year and decided to conceal data transmitted by the satellite Explorer IV. Although the IGY agreement requires that all information should be revealed by September 1959, the United States has repeatedly taken Russia to task for not releasing data as soon as it was processed...
...incredibly inept. From the aspersions it cast on our sincerity in participation in IGY to the questions it raises about our competence in handling any kind of international publicity, the policy adopted has provided a testimony of doubtful wisdom. When it is realized that the government was prepared to conceal the whole affair indefinitely, despite apparent Soviet knowledge of the entire theory involved, one can only wonder what secrecy in space and atomic energy really means...