Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sallie Bingham has struck a parting blow for crafts-manship, contributing a readable story about a girl's attempt to escape from her mother by living with a photographer in Paris. The only serious objection to her facile story is that she appears to use a narrative trick to conceal the difficulty of achieving a real resolution...
...20th floor of Manhattan's slick Coliseum Tower one bleak, humid afternoon last week, a flock of paunchy, proud fathers-to-be tried to conceal their expectancy behind a normal day's office routine. Sympathetic friends sat heavily in blue-flowered armchairs or toured a chrome-polished kitchen, which, their uneasy host boasted, was "bigger than General Sarnoff's." Then at 3 p.m. the baby was born. The baby: New York area's newest stations-WNTA A.M. and P.M., and WNTA-TV (Channel...
...crowned Apollo, is the domed Monastery of Daphni, whose fine mosaics were neglected for 700 years and are now recognized as a peak of 12th century Byzantine art. The church, named for the Virgin of the Laurels (in Greek, Daphni), stands behind a screen of cypresses, and its walls conceal a violent history. Seized and partially rebuilt in 1204 by Prankish barons, it was in turn captured and burned by Moslem Turks in 1460. The building was used in the 19th century as a powder magazine, fort, police station and sheep...
...expects the chemise to take over completely. But it may well prove a boon to the girl with the less-than-perfect figure who wants to conceal, rather than reveal, on the beach-and a bore to the men who have to look...
...vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension of nuclear tests, with each side stationing inspection teams inside the other's territory...