Word: masked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many factors were involved in De Gaulle's decision. One of them was pride. The West Germans had failed to mask their glee at France's discomfiture. In fact, the French first learned of the devaluation discussions in Bonn through press reports quoting West Germany's Finance Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. After the final session, Strauss implied that the devaluation was a foregone conclusion. "The French government has to decide the extent of it," he said...
...against Stalinism" and "From his comrades and friends in the prisons and camps." Grigorenko, an engineer whose libertarian views cost him his army rank in 1964, urged the mourners to work for "the persistent development of genuine Leninist democracy," and scathingly dismissed the current "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy" as its antithesis...
...also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case of rigor mortis until the final stretch, when suddenly, somehow, the impassioned humanitarian soul of Humphrey began to flare through the servitor's mask he had worn for four years under Johnson...
...first half, Quarterback Don Meredith rifled a touchdown pass to Bob Hayes; after that, he engineered a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green Bay a 15-yd. penalty. It cost Dallas the ball game. Obviously in pain, Meredith was only fitfully effective, seemed to have trouble finding his receivers, was twice intercepted. Meanwhile, Green Bay Quarterback Bart Starr completed ten of eleven...
...issues, it was Nixon as usual. He seems at time almost to have convinced himself that he has taken a position on everything ("Call in a question, the tougher the better."). But the invariable "let me make one thing very clear" or "speaking frankly" did nothing to mask what a very mechanical process this question-and-answer business had become for the candidates by Monday night and how little interest for anyone it held...