Word: hid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glory to the heroic liberating act of the 30th of May." Only one of the four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed target for Trujillo revenge. Tommy gun-toting guards protect his home round-the-clock; he wears a .45 Colt at all times and keeps an M-1 rifle within easy reach...
...last week's cease-fire was greeted skeptically by Eire's Prime Minister Sean Lemass, himself an old I.R.A. hand, who as a 16-year-old was captured by the English, booted in the backside and told to "go home to Mum." But though the I.R.A. craftily hid its weapons and warned that it planned to "prepare for another situation," its leaders would find few fellow countrymen willing to die in 1962 for the Six Green Fields...
Something that for this long year Had hid and halted like a deer...
...bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor, and his baronet father built "beautiful railways...
...contrast, he declared, the 1958 revolution in Venezuela had only provided a convenient disguise for U.S. businesses to hid behind as they "exploited" the people and the country. Vargas charged that Rockefeller's Standard Oil was the real master of Venezuela, and that it was splitting the country's wealth 50-50 with the government...