Word: hidden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...villagers of Saint-Sylvestre (pop. 1,200), in the heart of France, had been as close-mouthed as though they were guarding a hidden sockful of gold louis. Their secret leaked out not because they talked too much but because of their potatoes...
...Hidden Flaws. But none of this altered the grey toil of entering item 6, and subtracting line 2 from line 1, or eased the dogged pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
...doing so, few could avoid fascinated and furtive speculation as to just how much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already...
...Hidden ball plays...
Winchell was making a characteristic hidden-ball play, a retraction that gave no hint to any but the closest reader that a whistle had been blown on his fairness and accuracy...