Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus was superb, singing cleanly and with infectious rhythm which is the very life-blood of the music. Malcolm Holmes clear conducting could not conceal the orchestra's lack of rehearsal time but the orchestral sections were nearly adequate and will undoubtedly improve in the next two performances. The harpsichord accompaniment was very capably handled throughout by Alan Cunningham...
...Socialist government, for instance, does not conceal a certain sympathy for what Prime Minister Attlee calls "the new emerging [i.e., Red] China." From Winston Churchill down, Britons naturally put Europe's security first, fear lest American strength be deflected from the defense of Europe against Communism to a defense of Asia against Communism. Nor do Britons want their commercial stake in the Far East disrupted by war or even sanctions against Red China. James Griffiths told the House of Commons last week that British trade in Southeast Asia was booming: during the first six months of the Korean...
...conceal further their feminine shapes the girls were "very tight Corselettes." Corselettes, they explained, are "very tight corsets...
...multifaceted wit of the late George Bernard Shaw often did more to conceal than reveal his deep convictions. But last week a paragraph from his will made it clear where the author of Saint Joan, Heartbreak House and Back to Methuselah stood on the question of religion...
...enemies. Irish evasiveness, sociability and energy made him wish resolutely to cut the best figure on the thinnest ice. He kept up his stage role to the last. He was sometimes petulant in the publicity he delighted in. His great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly knew. He came close at times to that terrible condition...