Word: hid
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...sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary was 9 ft. long by 3 ft. high. She stayed there for almost seven years...
...facing due to the pedophilic abuses of its priests. While this action only monetarily repays the hundreds of men whose innocence was destroyed by unfaithful priests, it is at least a small step toward healing the wounded trust between the archbishop and his faithful. Whereas previous bishops hid the pedophilia problem and ostracized those who sought to call attention to it, O’Malley is to be praised for making the settlement process so transparent...
...behind them is no less mysterious. She met Ted Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...
...rugged mountains surrounding Changbai. Up in the alpine tundra, there were no border markings, and Kim wandered for days, unsure at first if she had reached China or was still in North Korea. To protect her chapped feet from the snow, she wrapped grass around her legs and hid in piles of leaves to avoid wolves. After days of walking on frostbitten feet, Kim reached a town and found work sorting eggs at a poultry factory. But a truck driver who was irked when she refused to sleep with him reported her to the police. On the truck back...
...What I did, you can multiply across the board not just for foreign media, but for Israeli media, as well,” he added. “We as a profession failed because we didn’t want to burst the bubble. We hid the truth from ourselves...