Word: hiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bill Clinton has been trying to hide his liberal roots. We're going to dust off those liberal roots and expose them...
Texas Democratic Representative Pete Geren, who nominated Zamora, a constituent, for Annapolis, sees the case as "a horrible aberration" that should not change the academies' selection process. "There aren't too many accomplished people," he says, "able to hide such dark sides." That's what's so haunting about this case: if found guilty (attorneys say the pair will plead innocent), it will appear that the same determination that brought success in classrooms and on athletic fields led them to view Jones as just another obstacle to what they wanted, another obstacle to be removed...
Even before this latest attack, tobacco was in a droop. After years in which the industry beat back lawsuits from health-impaired smokers, it lost a worrisome one earlier this month. Following the disclosure of documents showing that industry executives sought to hide their knowledge that their product was addictive, a Florida jury awarded $750,000 to a longtime smoker who developed lung cancer. Though an Indianapolis, Indiana, jury handed the tobacco industry a break late last week by finding it not guilty in a similar case, more than 200 individual lawsuits nationwide await, plus 14 by states that...
...Democracy. But somewhere along the way, I discerned a cold, repellent glint in America's eye. Maybe it was my stepfather's rages, or the way my wife's face hardened when the subject turned to cattle futures or real estate or banking. So I learned quick enough to hide my appetites under a pious exterior and save the warmth of my promiscuous embrace for the donors of $10,000 or more...
...wartime France, Beckett joined a Resistance group; his jobs were to send coded messages abroad (some would say he did the same thing as a writer) and later, when he and his future wife Suzanne moved to the southern part of the country, to hide weapons. He earned the Croix de Guerre for exploits that were not in his nature; he once hid grenades and dynamite on his front porch, in plain sight, because he was afraid they'd go off inside...