Word: hid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyatt Hotel suite, seeking assurances that there were no potential problems in her past. As he left in a cab for the airport, Reilly found a TV van following. "Lose it," Reilly barked at the driver, who raced the car through alleys and side streets. At the airport, Reilly hid in a phone booth until his plane was ready to leave. On the same day, Mondale-aide Michael Berman went over finances with Ferraro's husband in New York...
...Galileo composed some, so did Shakespeare and Cervantes. In the last century, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse...
...went in as an honest student interested in the documents, interested in the history, totally open. I never hid anything: I never pretended to be anything I wasn't," he says. But "there is a rabbit-like timidity on the part of analysts when it comes to looking at the full truth, and I don't have that I'm not frightened I don't know intellectual fear in that sense...
...With show business hair and a sparkling tux? He is here, folks, the man who brought back "deluxe" To budget deficit: Ronald king of the clucks. Well those are the biggies whom everyone knows. ButPeople goes on with less popular Joes. Like Hiroo Onoda, a stubborn old man. Who hid in the woods half his life for Japan. The great war had ended, but no one told Hiroo, (Why does he remind me of Spiro Agnew...
...repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported to measure the difference between Aryan and non-Aryan skulls. Most of the subjects were unwilling to be photographed, so Vishniac hid his camera, first from the Jews but then from the Nazis. In a moving foreword, Novelist Elie Wiesel calls Vishniac the "poet of memory." It is an even more apt title than the one adorning this haunting and invaluable work...