Word: hid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convict. They scouted the top floor and finally found an escape route. They brought me down on a freight elevator, then walked me through the kitchen to my limousine. But just as I got through the kitchen, some maid spotted me and let out a whoop. I ducked and hid my face. The last thing I wanted was for someone to start applauding then. But she'd recognized me, and damn if the whole place didn't start clapping...
...dart out the back door before my nerves got the best of me. It seemed strange that the characters who had grown to the enormous proportions of their reputation could be so tiny in real life. Baker, the tallest, couldn't be more than 5'8". He and Clapton hid in a corner of the room trying, impossibly, to remain inconspicuous. Baker--chalk skin set off beneath dull orange hair, black motorcycle jacket, high heeled boots and fingers almost hidden in silver and gold rings. Clapton in blue velvet pants, white silk socks and patent leather buckle shoes. Brocaded vest...
...total figure was pretty phenomenal," she said. "Students hid books in other parts of the library for their own private use. Some covers were returned with no books inside...
...Russian troops brought very little food with them, and Czechoslovaks were in no mood to ease their hunger pangs. Grocers and restaurant operators consistently refused to sell or give them anything, and farmers hid their stock. At one point, the underground radio gleefully announced that the average Russian tank crew's daily ration consisted of "six potatoes and some fat." It is small wonder that, after sitting down to that kind of mess, one trio of noncoms decided to raid a grove of apple trees near downtown Prague. Unfortunately for their appetites, the trees happened to be growing behind...
...coat of silver over the mud-spattered dividing rail. On streets surrounding the hall-many of them barred to all but VIP vehicles-lampposts were painted kelly green. Even fire hydrants were touched up by the painter's brush. Redwood fences, in a rainbow of pastels, hid junkyards and trash-strewn lots from the eyes of passing drivers and their passengers...