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...with a hand grenade, another with a Sten gun. but the Ghanaians turned them back at bayonet point. "Lumumba must die!" the crowd shouted. "He made us kill our brothers!" For nine hours' Lumumba cowered inside, first in a laundry closet and then in a bedroom, while Lundula hid out in a vegetable...
...French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study theology at Lausanne and Strasbourg and enter the ministry himself. In 1940, determined to serve where the need was greatest, he went to defeated France and settled in a rambling old stone building at Taizé, where for two years he hid Jews from the Nazis. The Germans never caught him. When they occupied Taizé, Schutz had returned to Switzerland. With four friends he continued his religious community in a Geneva apartment...
...till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...
...Allies closed in, Gehlen looked to the future. Deciding that the U.S. and Russia would be the next antagonists, he selected 50 cases of important documents from his files, hid them in Bavaria. Then he ordered 30 key officers of his staff to go underground and wait for word from him. He himself holed up in a mountain chalet, and several weeks later marched down, surrendered himself to U.S. authorities...
...soon to be be headed. At 21, Charles invaded England at the head of a Scots army, but his Presbyterian soldiers were more concerned, Pearson notes, with religion and robbery than fighting, and Cromwell crushed them easily. For six weeks, before he made his way to France, Charles hid out in various guises, including that of "Will Jackson," a farmer's son. In 1660, after Cromwell had died and the protectorate of his son Richard had fizzled, Charles returned...