Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mott may be placated by a rhetorical gloss in his direction from the Vice-President. I will not be, and I doubt that very many of Senator McCarthy's supporters will be either," Peretz said...
Traveling Man. As a campaigner, Agnew was proving a quick study. Working with the Nixon staff in California, he was given a fast lesson in how to deal with the press, learning how to gloss over embarrassing questions and how to cut his answers from a windy five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense...
...guidelines form the state), send the results to the State Department of Education, which only collects them and sends them to the USOE for distillation and inclusion in the office's glossy-covered annual report on Title I. One New York education official admitted that local districts may sometimes gloss over the defects in their programs,but said "You have to have some faith in the judgement of officials, and professionals...
This is not to say that we are without hope. We have hope; but we have been and we still are deeply troubled. To gloss over this fact or to speak glibly about it would be dishonest both to ourselves and to those who are still "in charge...
...members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years of heady expansion under King. Last week, at a secret meeting presided over by Cudlipp, the board voted unanimously to sack the chairman...