Word: concealed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convince Waldheim's detractors. While critics concede that Waldheim may not personally have committed war crimes, they maintain that he must have known about them as an interpreter with the rank of lieutenant and later as an intelligence officer. They insist that he then strove for four decades to conceal his knowledge. "It cannot suffice to describe Waldheim as a small wheel within wheels who saw nothing, heard nothing and knew nothing," says Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist who has studied Waldheim's record. "He has to be seen in the context of the war of extermination in the Balkans...
...cannot conceal my remorse," read the ad splashed across the front page of every daily newspaper in South Korea. Unusual though it was, the public apology by Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam, 60, was only the first to be offered by losers of South Korea's first free presidential election in 16 years. Rival Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, 62, issued his mea culpa two days later, conceding his "unbearably heavy responsibility" for the victory two weeks ago of Roh Tae Woo, 55, the candidate of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By splitting the opposition vote, the two Kims...
Only one week after Televangelist Pat Robertson formally declared his presidential candidacy, he received a chilling political baptism. Press accounts disclosed that Robertson's first child had been conceived out of wedlock and that the former minister had misstated his wedding date to conceal the fact. Robertson, who has condemned sex before marriage, said he had merely tried to "protect his family" in previously suggesting that he had been married in March 1954 rather than...
...session began. Again, after the meeting, the atmosphere was relaxed and genial at an outdoor buffet lunch at small tables under white umbrellas. But in between, during the three-hour working session -- the central event of the Pope's ten-day U.S. visit -- the unfaltering fraternal harmony could not conceal an extraordinary, sharply drawn divergence...
With so much overseas demand for high-profile U.S. commercial property, competing foreign bidders practically bump into one another at airports. To increase their already considerable bargaining power, many would-be buyers go to striking lengths to conceal their ultimate intentions. The Japanese Komatsu executives who went shopping in Tennessee for a factory kept their state government hosts completely in the dark about what they actually wanted. After a tour of the 1940s-era structure that eventually housed their heavy-equipment concern, the Japanese pronounced it "very dull and scary, very gloomy," recalls John Gregory, a Tennessee official who escorted...