Word: unveil
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...forces of evil made a fast exit, and the college settled down to unveil a memorial plaque to Theodore Roosevelt. A field of concentration poll was taken, and English Literature came out on top as Harvard's most popular subject...
...left out his company commander's practiced eyes. Out to inspect the close-order drill class, Captain W. A. ("I'm a bug on proper uniform") Gorman quickly spied the odd bulge bobbing under Smith's jacket. He stopped the platoon and commanded the recruit to unveil the unmilitary mystery. When Gorman, also a steady TIME-reader, saw the reason for the bulge, he ordered Smith to "share his knowledge" with the platoon by reading aloud while marching...
...stylized as burlesque shows. But some are more entertaining than others; there have been few finer examples of the phenomenon than the Senate hearings on Florida crime, conducted in Miami last week by Tennessee's agile Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator and his investigators managed to half unveil such titillating glimpses of skulduggery and to inspire such righteously innocent denials that even hardened Miamians seemed fascinated...
...wallpaper stripper, and proceeded to rip off the five coats of paper. A corner of the picture was discovered in the first few tears, and following that the workmen treated the operation with the greatest care. It took them a full hour of tense, delicate manipulation to entirely unveil the picture...
...stood in the cold before the brick courthouse and told of his own troubles with the statue ("It is not small enough to keep in the house and too big to put in anybody's front yard"). Then, amid applause, he called on his daughter to unveil the statue...