Word: concealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violence and McVeigh attempted to recruit others to assist. The grand jury charges the two men obtained and attempted to obtain the components, including a truck, ammonium nitrate, racing and diesel fuel, detonation cord and other explosive materials. The grand jury charges they used storage units to conceal the bomb components and stolen property that was sold to help finance their act of violence. The grand jury charges that McVeigh and Nichols made calls with a telephone calling card that they had acquired in a false name as a means of concealing their true identities. The grand jury charges McVeigh...
...Moya does not share in the connection binding her children; in fact, she barely seems connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...
...blame for triggering the Cuban missile crisis because of his secret plotting against Castro, which the Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked out of thin air. Hersh goes...
...that cloud biological and chemical weapons are at work here too. Iraq is trying to rebuild its ballistic missile program through a network of front companies that buy materials and technology in Europe and Russia. In a report last month, the U.N. Special Commission found that Iraq "continued to conceal documents describing its missile propellants," and the evidence indicated that "it might have destroyed less than a tenth of what it claimed." And, of course, there are no restrictions on Iraq's development of short-range missiles or cruise missiles, which can easily carry biological or chemical warheads...
...attempt at a Thanksgiving that could really happen, this environment doesn't help us connect to the characters we watch trudging back and forth across the snow. While The Myth of Fingerprints should be commended for studiously avoiding a Hollywood treatment of the family drama, it can't quite conceal that where substance is wanting, it doesn't matter whether the surface is glossy or gritty...