Word: hid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attraction of the club when the system first began is easy to understand. The Porcellian club, legend has it, began when a man in Hollis Hall found a suckling pig in his room. He hid the animal in a window seat until evening and then invited a few friends in to roast the pig. The evening was so pleasant that they determined to meet alternate Friday evenings for fellowship and supper. They first called themselves "The Argonauts," but when roast pig turned up month after month on the menu, the group came to be known as the "Pig Club." From...
...Will Not Kill You." When he disappeared. Dean was exhausted and dazed. In the darkness he fell down an embankment, was knocked unconscious. Hours later, he came to with a nasty gash on his left temple, a fractured shoulder. He limped into a clump of bushes and hid until nightfall. After two days of playing hound & hare with North Korean patrols. Dean came on a fellow American, Lieut. Stanley E. Tabor...
After a month, the Communists, apparently suspicious that he was coming under Dean's influence, detached Lee and sent him back to Pyongyang. At the first opportunity, he escaped from his ditchdigging detail and hid out in the ruins of the city until the American Army arrived. It was from Lee that U.S. intelligence learned positively that Dean was still alive...
Fire in the Woods. Sixteen miles farther on, scenting danger (by then there was a price on their heads and 12.000 Vopos were looking for them), the Czechs hid in a haystack, foraging at night for food. One day they heard a man's voice; the man was saying that he knew the refugees were hidden near by and that he was going to inform the police. Then a woman's voice: "Why, for the sake of heaven above, do you want to do that...
...three got into another gun fight with police. Baumer was hit in the belly and groin-and later, in still another gun fight, in the hand-but was able to keep going. When they reached an outlying station of the city's elevated railway, Ctirad Masin, who hid under a car, made it to West Berlin in one jump. The other two got there safely a little later. Thus three brave men had outwitted and humiliated thousands of Communist police...