Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring of 1969, when the students seized University Hall, Harvard's administrative nerve center, vandalized the offices and spilled confidential files all over the floor. Crimson Editor James Fallows, | later a speech- writer for Jimmy Carter, reported encountering "the great stone-faced Nathan Pusey, (who) tried to conceal his utter astonishment at the passions tearing up his university." Pusey called in the police, plus 200 state troopers. With a four-foot battering ram, they smashed down the main door; chain cutters, sledgehammers and billy clubs did the rest...
...government, caught by surprise, was slow to respond to the action. But by late afternoon on Wednesday, the strike's first day, thousands of troops, their faces daubed with black to conceal their features, arrived at plazas and the teeming slums that border Chile's major cities. During the two-day protest, security forces killed eight people, including a 13-year-old girl who witnesses said was carrying bread home from a Santiago bakery. Thirty-eight people were wounded and 300 arrested, including 180 who have been detained. Leftist guerrillas reacted with counterviolence. They set off at least 30 bombs...
Garcia's swift move to crush the jail riots reflected the demands of Peru's armed forces, which want a freer hand to deal with the Shining Path. But the military's attempts last week to conceal evidence of its excesses only embarrassed the government. Soldiers sealed off the prisons and buried dead inmates at night, despite assurances from First Vice President Luis Alberto Sanchez that the bodies would be delivered to their families...
Probst, 62, will stay on as vice chairman, but he did not conceal his mixed emotions last week. Said he: "We are totally convinced that we could have continued to be a viable competitor to IBM. But we recognize that, being a public company, we are not always masters of our destiny...
...week's gaiety could not conceal that the Soviets' handling of the tragedy had created a severe diplomatic setback for Gorbachev, who has been trying to give the West the impression of openness and public debate. Gorbachev missed an opportunity to turn a potential public relations disaster into a triumph of Soviet good-neighborliness and statesmanship. Had he recognized the international dimensions of the radiation leak soon enough, had he thought through the consequences of trying to keep the catastrophe a secret and had he openly invited foreign scientists and technicians to help put out the fire, Gorbachev might have...