Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district, complete with 500 rolls of music. Then Mrs. Campbell hid the mail-order catalogue because "it held too many attractions for George...
Some faced it with bravado-like ex-Fighter Pilot Hermann Göring, who gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it-like Colonel General Alfred Jodl who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell. Still others fought it alternately with cool logic and indignant tantrums-like Banker Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...foreign prince, she would point to Robert Dudley and exclaim that there was the only man she would wish to marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with it during a tennis match...
...during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent to Moscow for the New York Times, did not like it there, was glad when the chance came to help his native England fight for its own freedom -and Austria...