Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whistle, a crash, an explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
Numbers are winning the war for us, and night hid the numbers-the many planes, the many tents, the very many men-at our strategic airfields in North Africa when the order came for the largest mission of Fortresses ever sent against a single target in this theater. The night was soon busy. Many bombs were loaded...
...journalist's life. His wife died, and Griswold, suffering from tuberculosis, broke down. His collapse was like the literal living-cut of one of Poe's stories. In his derangement Griswold went to his wife's tomb, unfastened the coffin lid, "turned aside the drapery that hid her face," and seeing "the terrible changes made by Death and Time," fell uncon scious, to be found the next day by a friend...
...month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...
...house also needed him. The life that had been compounded of good things for little girls while he was alive crashed to its tearless ruin with his death. Louise, who was twelve when he died, could remember the diamonds in the eyes of his bulldog stickpin, and how she hid her dolls under the covers and made Father sit on a chair, so he would not sit on the dolls when he came to say goodnight. He took everything to the grave with him-money (he had signed too many notes), friends, family standing, a way of life...