Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a band of mutinous gendarmes crept into the capital of Bujumbura (pop. 47,000). While some surprised Prime Minister Leopold Biha in his home and pumped bullets into his head, others attacked the palace of the King, Mwami Mwambutsa IV. The Mwami proved luckier than Biha, managed to conceal himself in an upstairs room until loyal troops recaptured the palace later...
...Golden Age of sijo, says Translator Pai, began in 1456 and lasted for 150 years. Created by courtiers, many of these poems conceal political metaphors, but more and more often a personal note is sounded. Yi Sun-sin, the brilliant admiral who invented the ironclad and routed the Japanese fleet in 1592, described the loneliness of leadership...
...Morrissey's professional ineptitude has been "overplayed" by his opponents, evidence presented by the A.B.A. indicates that his character and integrity have been overrated by his supporters. It is now clear that Morrissey attempted to conceal information from the Justice Department and the Senate Judicary Committee, and that he falsely represented his residence in 1934 either to bar association officials in Georgia or to election officials in Boston...
Either Morrissey did not consider himself a resident of Georgia, and therefore illegally gained the right to practice; or, he was indeed a rseident of Georgia and therefore illegally entered the September 2 primary. His action in either case--and his recent attempt to conceal the Georgia episode--shows him unfit for the federal judiciary...
...stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov explains that the name was chosen innocently, though it has since picked up "comic" resonance...