Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davidson was in action over France last May when flak forced him to crash-land. Over his radio he shouted to his mates: "Tell my wife I'm okay!" While Germans hunted for him, he hid in a wheat field. "I heard a German officer give the order to shoot me on sight. Later they brought hounds . . . but the wonderful French people came to my aid. They milled all around the aircraft and so confused the dogs that it was impossible for them to pick up my scent." After dark, the French took him to a farmhouse, gave...
This week the Government tried to try Mussolini's blood-stained police chief, Pietro Caruso. Howling Romans surged into the courtroom, demanded Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from...
...London cabbie cocked his white head and his Homburg toward the sky. The dawn hid a mighty lot of bombers, and their extra thunder told him: "Something...
...nothing worse than close confinement if they failed and gave up when challenged. Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the Germans were obligated to notify the British immediately and fully of any escapes or deaths among the prisoners. This obligation had not been honored. Britons wondered whether the secrecy hid other, more flagrant misdeeds...
...Thefts of art works from museums are rare, because such goods are virtually unmarketable. Most museum thieves are psychopaths or fanatical art-lovers. Among recent U.S. art robberies, most sensational was the Brooklyn Museum's loss of ten old masters at one blow, in 1933. The Brooklyn thieves hid in the museum until late at night, skillfully lowered the paintings and themselves to the street by a rope. Four of the paintings were recovered, but the thieves were never found...