rug-cutter

The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.

“I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

Or, to put it more accurately: conflict is inevitably swept under the rug, at any and all costs.

A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart.

When Yung Pak ate his meals, he sat upon a rug on the floor with his father and such male guests as might be in the house.

The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.

On the sheepskin rug before the fire a Manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.