Word: hid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historical costumes, and he avoided the gaze of people pictured on magazine covers. Watching him boogie the night away at the prom, his mother recalled the last time she had seen her son near a dance floor, six years earlier: "We went to a wedding, and he hid in an alley most of the evening and begged me to take him home...
Even during the short time when the family was separated, Bill, then the only son, hid from others the disgrace of his father's drunken behavior. The mother and son moved into a new house then, and Bill remembers having to get a neighbor, Jim Clark, to show him how to use a posthole digger for putting up the mailbox. But the girl next door, a minister's daughter who became his close friend in school, never knew about the furies raging inside the Clinton home. No one knew -- not Clinton's high school counselor, not his pastor...
...opposed to that, everybody shredded; everybody ran, ducked and hid. Everybody turned into Teflon, and who got hurt? The American people got hurt, and we're still paying for Judge ((Lawrence)) Walsh to try to figure out what happened. Wouldn't it have been simpler just to say, "I did it, and here's why I did it, and in retrospect I shouldn't have done...
Sure, Clark has met with students, but when they held a silent sit-in in his office, he hid behind the power of the stick to bring the first ad board hearings for civil disobedience since the early seventies. And they were dropped in the seventies...
...maybe her smile and her friendly tone hid a more likely alternative. We'd heard that people down South often feel embarrassed about how Northerners perceive them. Maybe she was politely asking, "Are you slumming...