Word: veneered
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...Newsmen thus have little fear that they will be used, seduced, or played off against one another. If Nixon regards the press as a friendly adversary rather than an auxiliary tool of Government, his relative aloofness also means that reporters must work harder to scratch the smooth White House veneer and find what lies beneath it. So far, key presidential aides have proved to be much more wary of candid revelations than those of the past two Administrations...
...whose traits and drives take in all mutations of moral position and psychological experience. Karloff initially seems perverse and decadent; Lugosi, virtuous. But Lugosi's night-marish past experience and present insecurity drive him to acts of dreadful savagery even as we begin to see that Karloff's aristocratic veneer conceals the longing for beauty of a great artist...
...that they have guessed about man's biological history remains to be proved. But the guesses carry many implications. Perhaps the most significant is that civilization's splendid institutions owe a part of their balance to the wily jungle primate still surviving beneath man's cultural veneer. He is really a part of the design. His contribution, only just beginning to be perceived, can be ignored only at the risk of civilization itself...
...Soviets seemed to be settling into Czechoslovakia for a long stay. With a treaty signed in Prague, the Russians last week imposed a legal veneer on their occupation. They reserved the privilege to intervene in Czechoslovak affairs whenever they again detect another threat of "counter-revolution." The Kremlin is likely to use that clause to intimidate First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek from attempting to reinstate his earlier liberalization policies. On the military front, Moscow gained the right to station troops on Czechoslovak soil indefinitely...
Whether the Congolese army had forced Mobutu to have Mulele removed or whether the whole affair was a Mobutu plot remained unclear. But the execution cracked the veneer of stability and national reconciliation under which Mobutu has lately ruled. Across the Congo River, Brazzaville broke relations with Kinshasa over the Mulele affair. Its radio warned that "rebellion has not died with Mulele...