Word: hides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...printed a front-page editorial protest that the Queen should have to receive "the organizer of South Africa's color bar Police State . . . the man 8,000,000 Africans fear . . . who has preached flogging ever since he became Minister of Justice." Added the New Statesman: "He does not hide his detestation of the British connection and his determination to break it. This man is now to kiss hands, receive the seal of office and thus become the official repository of British honor and approval" in South Africa...
...time we suburbanites were shaken from our complacent parlor liberalism to practice what we preach. I'm sorry that some feel they have to hide their prejudice behind the "declining property value" argument. As a mother of small children in an adjacent child-oriented suburban community, I can only say, "we just can't afford not to be democratic...
...Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of Reading Period make the building undesirable for concentrated work...
Even before his election as president, Lowell, professor of Government, took no pains to hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that by the time of Eliot's resignation, Lowell had made it entirely clear that he disapproved of the College's present condition...
...photographs of such artifacts as farthingales, voodoo masks and inflatable brassieres, and (for scholarly contrast) there are photos showing people wearing no clothes at all. In a memorable chapter, the author decides that nudism is fine for sunbathing, bad for sex; the trouble is that it is all hide, no seek...