Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny cameras, often hidden in radiators or air conditioners, can be triggered by radio control. The most advanced still cameras advance their own film and adjust their shutters to different lighting conditions, but for a really fancy job a TV camera is the thing. Though it takes hard-to-hide coaxial cable, the TV set need be only eight inches long and an inch or so in diameter; its lens can peer through an inconspicuous opening such as a heating duct or recessed light fixture...
There is no objection to the Committee's other major recommendation, that the HSA be more conscious of public relations. If the HSA "has nothing to hide" as the Committee suggests, it should be unafraid to lift the mysterious and unjustified curtain of secrecy the Committee says it encountered...
...plays with her children, takes long evening walks. She likes Dallas, wants to stay on there, become an American citizen and resume her work in pharmacy. Remarriage? "No! Please!" she cries. "I have crazy letters from men who want to marry. I think these silly men." She does not hide the fact that she dislikes her mother-in-law. "I don't want to talk with her. This is too much...
Spending a good deal of time on the HSA's public image, the committee said the "HSA has nothing to hide from this, community" but creates an impression of evil-doing from its secretive policies. The committee also blamed "unjustified rumors and accusations" for the HSA's current alledgedly low prestige...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...