Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buttressed with lie-detector tests, De Louette said that Fournier (the name is an alias) recruited him to smuggle the heroin last December. Using money given to him by Fournier, De Louette bought the camper, then drove to Pontchartrain, outside Paris. There another man delivered the heroin and helped hide it inside the car. De Louette arranged for shipment of the car and flew to New York. After his arrest, he asked for help from a staff member of the French consulate. De Louette did so, he said, because Fournier had given him the name for use as a contact...
...conjures an intimate world of material satisfactions: the Third Republic interiors, with their mottled wallpaper and yellow light glowing thickly on well-stuffed chairs: the clutter of books, statuettes, lamps, dishes, forks; the poetry of possession. One of his portrait subjects is said to have told her maid to hide the cold cream, because "M. Vuillard never leaves anything out." She was, in a sense, wrong; Vuillard's eye for the telling shape was methodically acute. A domestic interior like Marthe Mellot: The Garden Gate (1910) seems the product of quite casual observation. Scrutinized, it becomes as composed...
...full freedom to offer their candid counsel without being forced to tell Congress or the nation's newspapers what it was. Yet the doctrine has sometimes been invoked to conceal bumbling, or political pressures, to suppress valid arguments against the decisions a President finally makes, or to hide outright corruption within an Administration...
Obviously, there are many cases in which an Administration must proceed in secrecy. But the presumption should always be in favor of open government. Whenever a President invokes executive privilege, he should be prepared to defend against the inevitable suspicion that he has something to hide as well as guard...
Rossi's main complaint about the present Cambridge city government is that it is too closed, that instead of informing people about its workings, it has chosen to be silent, to hide itself from the people--whether on purpose or by mistake is in-consequential. "For instance, the only information the city gives out about rent control is a copy of the Massachusetts law and a description of fair net operating income," he points out. "There is no information given about appeal rights, and unless you have a specific question rent control will not be explained to you. Most people...