Word: hid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers, broke into a seventh-floor uptown apartment. On a bed stood Joseph Nolen, naked to the waist, one hand behind his back. Crouched behind a dresser with a revolver was Ballard. Schuer, terrified, hid under the bed with a woman. Two other women hid behind a bathroom shower curtain. As Joseph; whipped out a revolver he had in his belt, police opened up. When the shooting was over, the two Nolens lay dead and Detective Philip La Monica fatally wounded. Another detective was seriously...
...July 31, their friends below saw them disappear into the clouds that hid the sky-cutting edge of The Butcher...
Collector's Item. In Wichita, Kans., six-year-old Leonard Niedens yanked out one of his baby teeth, hid it in his ear, told the specialist who removed it: "I put it there to save it. I liked that tooth...
...faked insanity with the help of the friendly Italian medical supervisor. Unthinkingly, he committed the "unforgivable crime" of speaking without an introduction to a fellow passenger on the train to London. "Really. Really. Quite," the man sputtered. There was "a look of absolute horror ... on his face," and he hid behind his newspaper. Flight Lieut. Leeming was back home, among the everyday severities of English freedom...
...Zola was sent to school in Paris. He hid his provincial manners with an abrasive gruffness, but he could scarcely hide his provincial ignorance. In his final exam he declared that Charlemagne died in the 16th century, was forthwith flunked for being off by some 700 years. Apparently unconcerned, he plunged into a Bohemian life, took a tart for a mistress, and during one starved winter dressed in blankets because he had pawned even his last pair of pants to keep her. He wrote a trilogy of epic poems, notably bad and terribly long. His family, through a friend...