Word: hides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caused by a tumor. Though it is seldom seen today, a particularly common tumor among peasants of the Middle Ages, who lived close to their herds, was tuberculoma. This was often caused by the bacilli of bovine tuberculosis-the same bacteria that made the ruff fashionable to hide the swellings of scrofula ("the king's evil"). Since Joan's right-side perception was affected, the tumor would be in the left hemisphere of her brain...
...fighting bull. As she sidles up to him mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood but sort of tedious. When a nice young sailor (Stephen Boyd) kills that nasty uncle, Brigitte helps him to escape. Night falls, and they hide out in an abandoned mill, a gypsy camp, a cave. On they go, one jump ahead of the police, until the censor has had just about all he can bare...
...name of the humble parish church where I was baptized, the solemn name of numberless cathedrals scattered throughout the world, including our own basilica [St. John Lateran]. Twenty-two Johns of indisputable legitimacy have [been Pope], and almost all had a brief pontificate. We have preferred to hide the smallness of our name behind this magnificent succession of Roman Popes...
...future to determine what this struggle will have served, but in any case now it serves nothing. Surely they can, if they want to, continue outrages, set up ambushes on the roads, hurl grenades in marketplaces, sneak into villages at night to kill a few unfortunate people. They can hide in mountain caves, go in groups from djebel to djebel and hide arms in rock crevices to use when the opportunity arrives. But the outcome is not there. Nor is it in the political dreams and eloquent propaganda of refugees abroad...
Except for dishes like hamburgers or french fries, most meals are bleakly bare. Catsup can be obtained if requested, ceremoniously parcelled out in paper thimbles. But the reassuring jars of the tomato spice, which held enough to hide the most unattractive mystery meat, are gone...