Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
Roughing It. Criminals originally coined cant (itself a 16th Century underworld verb meaning "to speak") to conceal their plans from eavesdroppers. When cant words pass into popular slang, as they do in the U.S. far more rapidly than Lexicographer Partridge seems to be aware, new mintings are made. Yet "the main body of cant is [more] conservative" than most people realize...
...waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...