Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
...records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail and get aboard. We're in a hurry...
...Dream Girl. The weather was good, no ball games, no dances, and, believe me, no business for us ... Walkouts galore! . . . Nasty remarks ... I ran and hid when they started coming...
...California's Santa Anita, in a ground fog that hid the field from sight part way down the back stretch, Kentucky-owned Old Rockport came from behind to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. The most exciting thing about Old Rockport's victory: his mutuel price...
...days after the Germans took over, Joseph Mindszenty became bishop of Veszprem. In his graceful rococo palace, Bishop Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there...