Word: concealing
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This autumn, when most of us are out of sorts chafing at enforced inactivity, critical of the government, dissatisfied with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject...
...poltroon or a cad. Yet the world is apt to be misled by clothes, by a distant or elevated manner, by reputation or another inessential sham. No more does the Army love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false. The soldier is judged by his willingness, by his considerateness...
...every concession to enable you to enter and serve in the cause of the nation. What difference does it make if the Faculty has done this if you do not stand by the Government. We have been criticized for going too far, for giving the students an opportunity to conceal 'slacking' and demoralization. The country is watching how you are standing up, and is asking questions. 'Can you submit to subordination, discipline, and self-control?' You might as well begin to answer these questions now as later...
These lofty sentiments were greeted with hearty approbation by the bystanders, among whom I saw several of my associates in the peace society. These latter took no pains to conceal their chagrin at finding one of their associates brawling on the street. I was somewhat humiliated myself. And so, while my antagonist drove off in a taxicab, I made my way on foot to my hotel, where I secured a small loan, and so came home. My present purpose is to resign from the peace society and join some group of people interested in justice. S. Hughes. Newport...
...next points out that holding must be absolutely eliminated. Its effects are very great--"the slowest man in the world could make a 40-yard run in every play if the rest of his team would hold their opponents long enough." And it is a very easy thing to conceal. Coaching from the side lines, beating the ball by unfair use of a starting signal, talking to opponents (which is prohibited by rules only if abusive or insulting), and arguing with officials, are in the same class; they all have an important result on the outcome of the game...