Word: hid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail was a fake touched up with expert plastic surgery to look like the real Be, and kept up the flow of adulation for their martyred hero. Now, stung by the way in which the Americans spread word of Be's nonheroic non-death-he hid in a river while the battle raged-they have switched to a terror campaign to silence those who can prove his identity...
...most Japanese, World War II ended in 1945. Not, however, for Sergeant Itō Masashi, a machine gunner in the Imperial Army. Separated from his unit during the American invasion of Guam in July 1944, Itō fled with two comrades into the jungle-and hid there until 1960, convinced throughout that a Japanese task force would soon arrive to drive the enemy away. This book is his account of his 16-year struggle in the jungle and his torment upon return. It is disjointed in places, and it suffers somewhat from a translator bent on changing...
...most of its 132 years, the Missouri poky resembled a Dickensian choky. Though custody was lax for the favored few who hid money or political pull, most inmates lived in nightmarish squalor. At one time the prison held close to twice as many as it was supposed to, with many 12-ft. by 9-ft. cubicles sleeping seven or more. Maggots and rats infested the food-handling areas. Gambling, homosexuality and use of drugs were rife, and as a result of their stay in "Jeff City," many convicts were more intractable when they left prison than when they went...
Brown and his men were so close to the enemy that one member of the patrol who was trying to snatch some sleep had to be awakened lest his soft snoring give them away. "As I hid in the grass, two Shakespeare quotations buzzed through my head," recalled Mannock, faithful to his Oxford education. "The first was 'Cowards die many times before their deaths.' The other, as the night dragged interminably, was the Dauphin sighing, 'Will it never...
...East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy." But, said Nickel, "when my conversation with people touched on sensitive matters, he discreetly hid his head behind a newspaper to make us feel at ease, although he later nonchalantly asked what had been said...