Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...
...When a battalion was ordered forward across the flats, the enemy opened up with machine guns and mortars. The men walked through a place where the Germans knew they would have to go. The survivors moved against Baldy. E and K Companies got 200 yd. up the hill and hid in the rocks. L Company tried...
...down in the Pacific, paddled their raft for two and a half days, until they reached an island. Down to the beach to welcome them came natives, handed the surprised flyers a book. It was the Bible. For 87 days the friendly Christian natives (converted years ago by missionaries) hid the Americans from Jap patrols. They also, said the airmen, converted them to Christianity. Last week Aerial Gunner Stanley W. Tefft of Toledo told...
Near dawn he reached the wood's edge, saw a German patrol. Surprised, he hid in the underbrush until the Nazis passed. Then, as the sun rose, he saw horror in the shallow valley sheltering the town. The town was Lidice, and Karl Horak saw it die (TIME, June 22-, 1942). Of Lidice's 1,200 human beings Horak, so far as he knew, was the only one who escaped the Nazis' savage reprisal after the killing of Gestapoman Reinhard Heydrich...
...city squatted on a towering bluff above the forests and marshes across the Desna. It looked shabby and scarred and a little indolent, for its steel mills and cement plants were silent and its people hid in dark corners. Atop the cliff German soldiers were building new defenses. Beyond the river two grimy, shattered railroad stations echoed the rumble of troop trains. And from the forests guerrillas watched the city, and emerged at night to derail German trains, ambush convoys, kill sentries...