Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, at the age of 22, Richard Halliburton lawlessly hid in the shrubbery, watched the Taj Mahal and his chance by moonlight, and swam in the lily-padded pool, he was neither putting on a show nor concocting copy: he was simply a college boy on the loose, a little bit crazy with romantic enthusiasm...
...delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
...herd of blooded cattle, driven along the river banks, got there a year later.) More spectacular still was the migration of Canton's Sun Yat-sen University. Poling their sampans out of Canton just as Japanese entered it, Sun Yat-sen's students pushed ahead by night, hid in the rushes of West River by day. (Biggest migration was not to a university but to a Communist school at Yenan, in northwest China. The roads from Hankow to Yenan were crowded for months with 40,000 youngsters traveling to training classes in propaganda and politics...
...such blackout hid the news last week. Every paper in the U. S. knew how desperate was the predicament of the Allies in France and Belgium, watched the advance of Nazi columns mile by mile toward Paris and the English Channel...
...bursting Blitzkrieg to reach the U. S. nearly three hours ahead of other reports.*A timid cub of 19 when he went to Chicago in 1912 from Dowagiac, Mich., Webster Miller got a job on the American's police beat. He cut his first name for euphony, soon hid his timidity. When in 1916 Pershing went into Mexico after Villa, Webb Miller went along. United Press hired him, sent him to Columbus, N. Mex., Mexico City, then to Washington. One July day in Washington (1917) he got a telephone call: "Catch the 4 o'clock train...