Word: hides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Force wants to hide 200 missiles in the bleak Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Installations spreading across an area about the size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful...
...continue to advocate total divestiture of all investments in banks lending money to the South African government or companies operating with or in South Africe. Meanwhile, in abstaining on measure like the one at Mobil, the Corporation chooses to hide behind a smokescreen of excuses, citing items of grammar or careless wording that supposedly render resolutions infeasible or impracticable. The Corporation purports to consider individual stockholder issues seriously, sticking to its policy of considering each one on an ad hoc basis. Since 1972, when it created the ACSR, the Corporation has delegated to that committee the gathering of facts...
...expertise known to our history ... I am the most ardent people-watcher who ever lived. I watch them inside me and outside. Past and present can mingle with odd impositions in me ... I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ... You cannot hide very much from my senses...
These career soldiers, many of whom are combat veterans, do not hide their frustration over the restrictions on their role. They feel hamstrung by the tight security that protects them against combat casualties or assassination ("a professional risk," says one officer). They would prefer to observe their students in the field, rather than depend on secondhand reports. They are unable, for instance, to assess how aggressive the Salvadoran soldiers are on combat patrols or in firefights with the guerrillas...
Alexandra Phillips and Alexander Pearson, as the sexually deviant couple, work well together--his neurotic calmness offset by her frantic hysteria. As Dr. Prentice tries with the determination born of despair to hide the evidence of his misdemeanor. Mrs. Prentice rushes madly from one end of the stage to the other, always one step behind. Melissa Franklin, as the hapless Geraldine Barclay, adds an Edward Gorey-like gallows humor to the play. She plays the innocent, dumb blond with evenness, never falling into the easy trap of whining or simpering...