Word: hid
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...That unnerved us. Also we kept hearing awful stories about doctors shot at hospitals, about incubators confiscated and babies left to die. We heard that Kuwaitis who hid Westerners were strung up and castrated in front of their own families. Some Arabs offered refuge to foreigners for long periods and then suddenly turned them in to the police. The stories made us more tense...
Behind Thatcher's full skirts hid skeptics on issues ranging from the abolition of all border controls, to a single currency by 1994, to free immigration within the European Community. "It was easy for certain countries to sit back and let her do the talking," said a senior E.C. diplomat. "She would take the political risks in saying what some others also thought." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for example, may have to come out in the open in slowing down the movement toward a common E.C. currency, a goal heatedly opposed by Thatcher and Kohl's own Bundesbank...
...activists like Ungarn face parlous times ahead. In conservative, Catholic countries like Hungary and Poland, there is a strong reassertion of traditional values, and that puts political careers for women at risk. Ungarn hid from her constituency the fact that she was divorced, and is careful to keep her personal life spotless. "Any smear on the purity of your image can totally spoil your chances," she says. "Here women are still judged differently from...
...Bush Administration never hid its optimismabout the Massachusetts race. Right after theprimary, White House aide Ron Kaufman told theBoston Herald that polling data showed Kerry to be"the weakest Democrat running for re-election inthe country...
...strangers. On assignment, Stanley and Nachtwey learned that Pakistani police were preventing foreigners from crossing the border into Afghanistan. Nachtwey began to grow a beard and donned guerrilla garb in order to pass through in a truck with a group of mujahedin. Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched...