Word: hid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests. Because he feared the telltale stench of turpentine, he gave up oils and instead painted some 1,300 watercolors on small (5-in. to 10-in.) pieces of Japanese rice paper that could easily be hidden. His wife Ada would press them flat with her iron before he hid them away in his huge "treasure chest." He called them "unpainted pictures" because he hoped some day to use them as bases for oil paintings...
...maybe he has. So far in the shakedown trials off Sydney, Dame Pattie has trounced Gretel, the 1962 Aussie challenger-and the only foreign twelve-meter ever to beat a U.S. defender in an America's Cup race-so badly that onlookers have been wondering where Hood hid the engine...
...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
...chief of the Congo's elite Police des Mines, nearly everyone and everything coming out of the diamond-rich Kasai province is suspect. In search of an estimated $20 million in diamonds a year smuggled out of the Congo, he and his men have found contraband gems hid den in elephant tusks, embedded in bars of soap, even pumped into the stomachs of small edible crocodiles on their way to market...
...legal travelers, there is always the more hazardous route past the minefields, barbed wire, watchtowers and border patrols that hem Communist frontiers. Last week two Hungarians escaped to Austria by flying their tiny sports plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border...