Word: hid
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...went out with white music like a girl my parents didn't want me to date. I kept the volume low. I hid my new CDs. A new magic poured into me, mostly from Bjork and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Unlike hip-hop, here was a music that I did not have to reconcile with the fact of being a father, music that had lyrics so surreal that they bent my head into knots. And although my greatest fear still was that a visiting friend would find my copy of Radiohead's The Bends, I was in love again and shocked...
...adds. To this day Gasa harbors a hatred of the Japanese. "They came to our island and they were cruel people," he says. "They killed our animals, took our belongings and used our houses. Whenever we thought the Japanese were coming, we escaped to another island and hid...
...from the village chief, Shinah, shot back. "The American is our guest, and we won't give him up as long as there's a man or a woman left alive in our village." As a precaution, the villagers moved the injured commando out of Gulab's house and hid him in a stable overnight, until it was safe for Gulab to make the six-hour trek down to the U.S. base at Asadabad and report that the SEAL--by then the subject of an intense search--was alive. Sometime later, Gulab went back to his village and then returned...
...Jerry Lewis as well as such classics as Little Caesar (1930), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), The Rainmaker (1956) and True Grit (1969); of complications from diabetes; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A moviemaker without eccentricities who could cut a deal as deftly as he cut a film, Wallis hid under his phlegmatic manner a keen intelligence and an uncanny eye for talent. Among his discoveries: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Shirley MacLaine...
...Zarb, who for years was his quietly designated successor should the worst happen--lost faith and pushed him to resign, first as CEO and then as chairman, in March. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed civil fraud charges in May, accusing Greenberg of orchestrating "sham transactions" that hid losses and inflated AIG's net worth. Just last week he resigned from AIG's board, ending his last official tie to the company--the same week two executives at General Re, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway that did business with AIG, pleaded guilty to civil fraud...