Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the chummy writers' cliques of Warsaw. Belgrade and other Red capitals. Yet most of their experiences have been shaped into painfully isolated visions...
...Kremlin man. His hands are small and active, and so are his well-shod feet. He has a big, oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly...
...liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through the liquid, they will make slender, scratchlike trails of hydrogen bubbles. These trails, lasting but a fraction of a second, are the reason for the massive. $2,000,000 instrument; scientists around the world hope that photographs of the trails will reveal the innermost secrets of matter...
...Gangrène is a grim, simply told report of tortures suffered by five young Algerians seized by the Paris police last December. Their accounts, smuggled in segments out of Paris' Fresnes prison where the five are still awaiting trial, describe how they were beaten and tortured to reveal not only the names of F.L.N. accomplices but also names of sympathetic French priests and lawyers they had consulted. Several of the Algerians were tied naked like animals on a spit and subjected to successive electrical charges through electrodes attached to their lips and genitals. Others, says La Gangr...
Inevitably, the pitfalls just about equal the opportunities, and whole sections of Nickerson's book might be subtitled "On Guard." Example: many brokers understate the age of a building. A trip to the meter will reveal the tattletale yellowed card left by the electrical inspector and stamped with the property's true age. While most tenants are reliable, there is always the hazard of "The Professional Deadbeat...