Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back so that everyone can see and hear, for I am about to perform a time-honored healing ritual of political journalists. With the able assistance of a corps of researchers, I shall produce a cornucopia of quotations bemoaning the state of our candidates and the campaign, only to reveal that--tah-dahhh!--these comments were about past political campaigns. Ready...
...learned from a young age that you should never reveal your weight, your salary or who you vote for. So while I will never tell who I am voting for in this election--check my bumper stickers, window signs and pin-up posters in my room if you want to try to deduce it--for the sake of illustration I will make an exception to the rule and let you peek inside my first trip to the voting booth...
...commission's luck changed the very next day when five ex-officers in South Africa's dreaded Security Branch applied for amnesty and offered to reveal details about the death-squad murders of some 40 political activists. With that, the sarcophagus of silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha...
...complexities and contradictions, and has done an astonishing job of marshaling the talents of some 6,700 contributors. The Dictionary of Art contains more than 41,000 entries, ranging from a few lines to near books in themselves; the section on frames, for instance, runs 128 pages. Spot checks reveal none of the awful jargon that disfigures so much academic writing; all seems clear and readable, and sometimes even dryly witty. And as you browse it, you realize what an unprecedented effort of distilled and integrated scholarship it represents. Every country in the United Nations has its entry, from Afghanistan...
...problems of [this] Administration have become ... a habit of half-truths ... [the] rhetoric he adopts is intended to mask, not reveal, his true intentions...