Word: hid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crept very slowly over road beds which were almost entirely submerged. It gave one a rather creepy feeling to go along mile after mile and watch the water from one tram windows--water which in many cases was over the rails on which we were riding, and which entirely hid from our view the rails next us on the embankment...
...called to the throne; but the chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be. Politically, of course, anything may happen; but I doubt that the Kaiser will ever resume a position of authority. . . . When the great War lord turned tail and hid behind the skirts of the Queen of Holland that absolutely finished him in Germany. If any of you have seen the Queen of Holland you know that she has quite ample skirts...
...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
...three years and nine months Private Fowler hid in a space 5½ feet high and 20 inches deep. Sometimes at night he dared to steal out and sit with his protectress before her fire-but no chance to escape ever came. Not until Oct. 10, 1918, did the Germans march away. Then Private Fowler took Mme. Belmont-Gobert in his arms, dashed water over her face and gave her a sup of wine-she had fainted...
...plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot at planes sent in search of the flyers. But now he felt fine. Soon he would try again to fly home from so gracious and hospitable Spain...