Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that had received the five talents went and traded with them and gained another five talents, and likewise he that received two gained two more. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money...
...days later police thought they had found the car in a garage. They hid near by, but the "Scarlet Pimpernel" who came for the car shot it out with them, fatally wounded Caen's police chief, escaped again...
...last week 19-year-old Knifey Sawicki ran amuck. He turned up in Momence, walked out to Henry Allain's farm. He found the 72-year-old farmer working in a field. Knifey shot him dead, hid the body behind a pump. "He got me sent to St. Charles," said Knifey. "Put the finger on me, the stinking squealer...
...pall of smoke was reported over Leningrad. A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes. A German reporter in a Stuka said well: "There is nothing but confusion beneath us." In those seven days one fact stood up gaunt and real as the remains of a bombed wall. The Russians admitted on the third day that they had lost 374 planes while they had shot down 381 German planes...
...HiD. The bag of rice eventually found its divided way, by daily rations of a pound and a half of rice per man, into the stomachs of the finest troops in China. For the men in these trenches and dugouts were members of HiD-the Honor ary First Division of China's Central Government Armies. This division is the only one of China's some 300 divisions to be awarded the designation Honorary. Over 70% of its men have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack...