Word: downplay
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According to Mahan, city officials are loathe to step up safety precautions in the Common because they do not want to admit that the symbolic heart of Cambridge has grown unsafe. Meanwhile, University officials—in an effort to avoid a town-gown confrontation—downplay the Common’s dangers...
...campus saturated with diversity, Hamm initially tried to downplay his unique background. But twelve siblings proved impossible to hide. “After a month of telling so many stories about this brother and that sister, my roommates finally were like ‘How many siblings do you have?’” Though 12 kids may be, as the movie says, an “insane” number, in the end it proves to be twelve times...
...around Blair legitimately worried they had to get Kelly's name out or be accused of misleading parliamentary investigations into the WMD dossier. But he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge that decent and malign motives could both have shaped the naming strategy. Hutton also bent over backwards to downplay evidence that Blair aides had influenced John Scarlett, head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, to change the dossier to boost its public impact - as Gilligan in part had claimed. Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, worried in an e-mail that draft dossier language stating "Saddam is prepared...
...David was 5. His father's many frauds left Le Carre with a natural gift for duplicity that he turned to professional advantage. For an undisclosed period of time from the late 1940s into the 1960s, he worked for Her Majesty's Secret Service, though he is quick to downplay his exploits. "I was never James Bond or anything like it," he insists. "I sat behind a desk...
...promise that The Game once held a month ago is gone. One would be mistaken to downplay what is on the line at Yale Bowl, however. The stakes are still high for the Crimson—very high. Here?...