Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
...from Kirkland mauled hapless Commuter quintets twice yesterday, in both A and B league, while Dunster took the Eliot Elephant's hide by a declaive...
Sharing the platform with Robert L. Wolff, visiting history lecturer from Wisconsin, and Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, who moderated, Vilfan said that Yugoslavia "has nothing to hide." He went on to emphasize the role of his country as an example of a successful "democratic revolution" which combines "economic socialism and political democracy...