Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that way, the second most statesmanlike thing is to borrow from Earl Long and tell the people you lied." Johnston doesn't expect Bush to ape Long, but he does expect him "to set the stage and move by degrees. At some point, possibly under the cover of the National Economic Commission or an economic summit between the White House and Congress, Bush could tank his campaign dribble and say, 'Well, I thought we could do it my way, but it turns out we just...
...media-shy celebrity, unfolds at a party where the host, a deputy mayor of New York City, lies bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves. Instead of hewing to the consistent if mad logic of successful farce, the conspirators lurch haphazardly from rationale to rationale...
...COVER: Was John Connally the real target in the Kennedy assassination...
...past two weeks, there have been no less than 16 specials, documentaries, television movies and news reports focusing on President Kennedy and his assassination. This week, Kennedy's face is emblazoned across the cover of two great barometers of cultural consciousness, TV Guide and People magazine...
...killers often attack under cover of darkness, shooting their victims in cold blood and hacking off their horns before disappearing into the night. In Kenya's Meru National Park two weeks ago, 30 heavily armed poachers slaughtered five rhinoceroses and traded gunfire with park wardens before making their getaway...