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Word: hid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Milli's interest was roused the minute he laid eyes on the young fellow. Mr. Milli is a subway cop, sensitive to subway manners, and there was something about the way the young man sauntered into a Brooklyn subway station that looked suspicious. Milli hid in a nearby booth and watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sucker's Game | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

They both had good English accents. They carried papers to prove that they were Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: Agents Without Honor | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...disclosed that she got her start in burlesque because she always wanted to dance, but "thought clothes were encumbering". Her mind was made up when an astrologer revealed that she was born under the sign Sagittarius, which means she is frank, open, and "doesn't like to hid things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURLESQUE QUEEN BARES ALL DURING NETWORK PROGRAM | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

Their numbers decimated, the unit hid in bushes for an entire day while the Germans, in motorized divisions who knew of their presence, ignored them, such was the speed and efficiency of their advance. He and less than a third of his fellows finally broke through a German column and Gueiroard was able to rejoin his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT DECORATED FOR WORK IN FRENCH TANK UNIT RETURNS | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...Dworken and Tom Broidrick paced the Funster offensive against the more spectacular pass attack of the Merrimen, but both lacked scoring punch. In the first half Demmy Lloyd for a forty-yard gain in the second half after Eliot had tried a field goal. In a final hid for victory late in the game, Dunster marched to the Merrimen's eight-yard mark, only to be cut short by the final whistle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP SWAMPS LOWELL 25-0; ELIOT, DUNSTER IN TIE | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

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