Word: hides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HIDING PLACE, by Robert Shaw (254 pp.; World; $3.50), concerns two British airmen who parachute over Bonn from a burning Lancaster during the closing months of World War II. A meek, wispy druggist's clerk takes them into his house, feeds them, and misdirects a Gestapo search party. The flyers congratulate themselves on their luck and hide out for a week in the clerk's wine cellar. But one morning when they awaken, they are chained and handcuffed...
...bears the name and address of the sender, and will be piled on a hilltop in October to serve as a sweet-smelling funeral pyre for the dead King. When the royal tree is at last found, the news will be spread by couriers, bronze drums, temple gongs, buffalo-hide tom-toms and by telegraph...
...contrast with most specialists in disorders of the digestive tract, who prefer to hide behind polysyllables in writing of their work (e.g., the American Journal of Gastroenterology), the British Medical Association announced that it will soon publish a learned specialty journal entitled simply...
...working to undermine 35-year-old Premier Ahma-dou Ahidjo's fledgling government. The party is led by Dr. Felix-Roland Moumie, who has been issuing Czech pistols to Bamileke tribesmen. Just back from Moscow, Moumie operates from his refuge in nearby really independent Guinea. His followers hide in the hills or attack from across the border in the neighboring British Cameroons...