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...feared, says Simone, "that Jacques had dishonored me." Short years before. Mama de Beauvoir had pinned together pages or whole chapters of books which she considered unseemly for proper young girls. When Simone inadvertently discovered that George Eliot's unmarried heroine in Adam Bede was pregnant, she hid the book so Mama would not be horrified at her knowledge...
...left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital, and hid...
Journey to Safety. As the Dalai Lama and his escort fled by night and hid by day in lamaseries, villages and Khamba encampments, the furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods...
...well yes it is too. It protests against people who sleep too much." He hid behind his copy of Sing...
...Masterson, he resembled the television character in only one respect: he used to bat disorderly types over the head with a heavy cane he sometimes carried. Otherwise, he was a cautious fellow who hid behind a piano in a bawdy-house when a gunman was on the prowl, later bought a gun in a New York pawnshop, filed 22 notches in the handle and, as a reporter for the New York Telegraph, set about making his own myth...