Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cruyff, struggled through some ragged early games, but by last week they were attacking with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination rounds, arrived in West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record in Cup play...
...press did not invent these charges or inflate them out of proportion. The offenses already proved represent nothing less than an attempt to subvert the U.S. electoral system and then to hide the extent of that subversion. The argument, still widely heard, that all this was no more than dirty-politics-as-usual simply cannot be sustained by any halfway dispassionate student of the Watergate affair. Many of the offenders were public officials, men responsible for upholding the law in a law-and-order Administration. What the press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots...
...most politicians to question the motives of those who cross him. The lack of understanding has been mutual. Reporters are accustomed to dealing with evasiveness in politicians; poking behind facades is part of their craft. But as most reporters try to figure out Nixon, one facade seems only to hide another. Not only journalists but many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes across variously as insincerity, awkwardness, lack of genuine warmth. It would be disingenuous to argue that a certain visceral dislike did not color the professional attitudes of many newsmen. Seymour Hersh is more vehement...
...great freedom given the U.S. press requires self-restraint, and during Watergate-an exceptional national crisis-some of that restraint has disappeared. Against this must be poised the fact that from the beginning, the Administration had conducted a massive campaign of deception to hide its actions and defame the press. It is clear from the tape transcripts that the President himself withheld evidence from the public. It has long been clear that his principal aides lied and lied again while accusing the press itself of lying...
This will be possible only if the Government in turn is reasonably open, does not cheat as a matter of habit, does not use appeals to national security and secret classifications as a means to hide from the people or protect it self politically...