Word: hid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are HIV-positive men who talk about having put their feelings on hold from the day they first tested positive. Some even hid behind the virus as a lethal scare tactic, a way to fend off attachments with friends and family that they weren't sure they could handle. (One more paradox of the epidemic: even the Jolly Roger can be a flag of convenience.) Now they realize they may have to go back into the world and forge the kind of attachments that get you through a lifetime...
...kind of time-warping refusal to see it or themselves honestly. A haze of self-cherishing nostalgia confuses them. They want to be their child's friend; they do not wish to be uncool. They may still smoke sometimes and hide it from their kids, as they once hid it from their parents--an amazingly demeaning drama of arrested development...
...most of them knew they would not live to see another spring in Germany. Some faced it with bravado--like ex-Fighter Pilot Hermann Goring, who gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it--like Colonel General Alfred Jodl, who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell...Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness, or of the hardworking prosecution's meticulous attention to detail. The Nazis...
Peterson, though, hid out for a few days with his parents, who are divorced, before turning himself in last Thursday morning. His lawyer, Joseph Hurley, had announced this ahead of time, and a huge crowd of reporters and onlookers greeted Peterson. Someone jeered, "Baby killer!" and Peterson's distraught mother cried, "I want to go with him! I want to go with...
...black-and-white images chosen by Squier and Knapp made Dole and Gingrich look like villains from a silent-picture show. They gave way to sun-dappled shots of the American President, steadfast and true. And so was born a key part of the 1996 message: attack spots that hid their harsh negative material inside a lush pro-Clinton wrapping...