Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score. The Oriole manager, a stocky fellow named Weaver, even began to look and act like a funny old fellow named Casey Stengel, who used to run the Mets. During the fourth game, in a transport of fury, Weaver was banished from the field. But nothing could hide the awful fact that the Oriole power had failed. Their heralded hitters mustered only a combined batting average of .146. Not even Hot Rod and Choo Choo had ever sunk that...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...
...hidden wine. The German army moves into Italy and a small contingent is sent to take away the wine. For the villagers, their wine is like the sacred blood of ancestors. Every day they work in the fields tending grapes. In a collective brainstorm the village manages to hide the wine before the Germans arrive. The rest of Stanley's Kramer film shows the conflict between the Germans' systematic force and the Italians' slippery deception. The Italians win. The Germans leave empty-handed...
...Members of the YSA participate openly" the spokesman continued. "We do not hide the fact that we are socialist revolutionaries, but we demand the right of all American citizens to free exposure and association...
...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...