Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
...Hitler's Moslem friends could not do any better than Iraq's Ra^hid Ali El-Gailani was doing last week, if the British Navy kept Nazi troops from reaching Syria, if the drive on Egypt stayed stalled, then Ambassador von Papen would have to try to get the Turkish front door open. Whether to burst or to pry would be decided by his boss, and would depend on Hitler's timetable...
...flood of first-quarter reports not all beer and skittles. True, combined profits of 345 top-flight companies (as tabulated by New York's National City Bank) were $377,372,000, up 17½% above 1940's first quarter, best since 1929. But this bare statistic hid many ands, ifs, buts...
Died. Urbain J. Ledoux, 56, onetime U.S. consular servant and peace crusader; in Manhattan. Preferring to live with, minister to Manhattan's Bowery bums, he hid his identity, said: "I am nothing to you but bread and water." Cackled one: "I've got your number. You're zero. That's nothing." So he became their Mr. Zero...
...calibre revolver inside), after sleeping one night in a sand pit, one night in a dog kennel, they stopped at last at Echo Lake-a small, boarded-up summer resort where frame cottages stood cold and bleak in the New Jersey woods. They broke a window in one, hid until dark, ransacked others that night. Now they were well fixed. They found canned food, soup, beans, four .22-calibre rifles, one .410-gauge single-barreled shotgun, one 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun, one 1885 Army rifle, one hatchet, one bayonet, five daggers, two ammunition belts and some 500 rounds...