Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calmly came to a momentous decision: "I would consider myself justified in living until I was 30 for science and art, in order to devote myself from that time forward to the direct service of humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found. In addition to the outward, I had now inward happiness...
...tough, red-faced private detective named Harry Raymond indirectly did Bowron a good turn. Raymond, who had been loudly threatening to "blow the lid" off the city, walked out to his car, got in, stepped on the starter and detonated a bomb which someone had unkindly hidden under the hood. Bomb, car, detective and all went up in a fearful explosion. Raymond was not killed-although surgeons had to dig 122 separate slugs out of his torso...
...month ago, a Philippine Airlines twin-engined DC-3 exploded and fell into the sea between Daet and Manila; its crew of four and nine passengers perished. Suspecting that a bomb had been hidden in the plane, the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation last week picked up Gavino Largo, an escaped convict, and Amadeo Salazar, his friend. From their partial confessions the Bureau pieced together a grisly tale...
...Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
...board with him. Almost illiterate ("She has not read a line of all my works," said Goethe), Christiane not only loved Goethe but delighted him by her absolute refusal to be anything but' what nature had intended her to be. She bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue to be fond of me and a few friends stick to me and my girl remains faithful and my baby lives and my big stove works well-why, I have nothing left to wish...