Word: hid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yuppies who pioneered the food revolution. At first, old food fogeys like myself mocked them for their balsamic vinegar and sun-dried tomatoes, but secretly we hid our Hamburger Helper in the back of the cupboard and dumped the Crisco out. In dizzying succession, the yuppies hit us with the jicama, the kiwi, the leek and the miniature eggplant. By the end of the 1980s, thanks to their heroic efforts, every Midwestern town sported a fern- filled "Maude's" or "Davio's" offering white chocolate mousse and blackened fish. For those who could afford to eat fashionably, dinner replaced...
...Harvard police hid television cameras in hollowed out books and placed undercover officer in the stacks 24 hours a day as part of their investigation...
...their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret, by his heroes. Some of them still have money -- old, of course, because latching on to new money would require the burgerlich rapacity that their great-grandparents successfully hid. If they have professions, they are likely to be lawyers, ineffectual but tolerated in the old firms because their names are those of dead founding partners. But their only consistent strengths are snobbery and a watery kind of good taste...
While Crimson schmoozers touted their in-house presses and hid broken phones in an out-of-sight box, WHRB emphasized the station's "huge record collections" and "brand new studios" in the basement of Pennypacker Hall. The editors of the Independent boasted about their new home in the basement of the Canaday Hall's A-entry...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and impressed the group's co- leader Wadi Haddad. Contrary to myth, he did not take part in the Black September attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics that left 11 Israeli athletes dead. Instead, he was dispatched to London, where he hid behind the guise of an irresponsible Lothario as he established safe houses and arms caches...