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were unmasked
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To remove a mask from someone.
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I spent many happy hours watching Scooby inadvisably enter spooky old shacks and dodgy-looking factories, only to squeal with delight as ghouls loomed and caretakers were unmasked.
The list of the world's 200 richest people, according to Bloomberg Markets magazine, includes "more than 30 hidden billionaires" that were "unmasked" by Bloomberg News.
But, during one such interview, Lanzmann and his assistant were unmasked, attacked, and bloodied by the subject's son and three young toughs; after being hospitalized for a month, Lanzmann was charged with unauthorized use of the German airwaves.
"The Main Enemy" is replete with the interior musings of Soviet officials and moles, even some who were unmasked by the K.G.B. and shot before they could write their memoirs.
The series opens in the offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1956, only five years after the first Cambridge spies were unmasked as double agents, and just as President Gamal Abdel Nasser is consolidating power in Egypt.
From December 1821 to January 1823 members of the conspiracy were unmasked in the army and the upper bureaucracy and received death sentences, all of which were eventually commuted to long prison terms.
In fact, as the two women delved more deeply into how Civil War society viewed these soldiers, they were astonished to discover that, although politicians and pundits were often critical, male soldiers usually accepted their female comrades once they were unmasked.
What makes the case even more intriguing is that the three were unmasked by the real Guggenheims, who are themselves trying to capitalize on the family name in ways the dynasty's patriarch, Meyer Guggenheim, could not have imagined when he arrived from Switzerland in 1848 to seek his fortune in America.
Their managements were unmasked as obfuscators of the first order.
The cyclopentenecarboxylates were unmasked and standard PyBOP peptide coupling afforded the target compounds.
Three relatively asymptomatic patients' previously undiagnosed pheochromocytomas were unmasked by elective surgery, manifesting as peri- or postoperative hypertensive crises and subsequent cardiogenic shock.
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