Word: hides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind and settled in Provincetown or New Jersey. Then O'Neill would shed the trembling toper and turn into the contented craftsman, in bed by 11 every night, at work sharp at 9 in the morning. He so hated to be interrupted in his work that he would hide in a closet when company came...
...doctor's job was keeping the children healthy with balanced diets and three checkups a week. The father was their stout shield against excessive publicity. He tried to hide the quints' birth by registering them separately, and when the secret got out, he turned away reporters with short answers: "They are just children. Go find yourself a road show...
...they officially founded "The Yearly Corporation of the People Called Methodists" in 1784. Last week the zeal seemed to be guttering low. As 650 delegates met in a heat wave at Newcastle-on-Tyne, even their lustiest singing of The Living Church ("And are we yet alive") could not hide their mood. By the delegates' own gloomy account, the Methodist Church in Britain is sick...
...Ph.D.s "persist in their perverse modesty and deliberately hide the fact that they are doctors." Even worse, "they help demean their profession further by lending themselves to the widespread practice ... of handing out honorary doctor's degrees . . . like lollipops." Seymour's recommendation: replacing honorary doctorates with O.C.C. (Outstanding Citizen of the Community) degrees, so that recipients cannot masquerade as hand-carved Ph.D.s. Whatever happens, it is probable that Ph.D.s will, willy-nilly, go on passing as ordinary mortals. Byline on the Educational Record piece: plain "Harold Seymour...
...noise of the Eastern Front in World War II, and Director Douglas Sirk has turned a true camera eye on the bleak grey vista of the once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie sputters like a jeep on kerosene...