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...escape was to be inconspicuous. Greene learned to drift off by himself, against the rules, to Berkhamsted's beautiful common, a "wilderness of gorse, old trenches, abandoned butts." (Once he ran away from home and hid out on the common; it was a deeply humiliating anticlimax when his big sister flushed him out after a few hours.) A boy could also escape by reading. Graham was 14 when he read Marjorie Bowen's * The Viper of Milan, a melodramatic yarn about a war between the dukes of Milan and Verona, and "from that moment I began to write...
...TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Both came from prominent political families in Crete, but Constantine's family was Royalist, Tassoula's Liberal. Tassoula's father forbade the marriage, so Constantine grabbed Tassoula, carried her off to Mount Ida, where they were married in a lonely monastery, then hid in a cave protected by a private army of Constantine's family and friends...
...this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati. * E.g., Isaiah 53:3-5: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities...
...fell dead, another lay mortally wounded, a third was stretched on the floor seriously hurt, while a fourth bullet snapped a waistcoat button off a key witness. Spectators dived under benches and hid behind chairs as Boris scattered 20 more shots about the courtroom. When both guns were empty, he paused for a moment to reload. He fired two more shots. Then the touchy fellow aimed a third at his own temple and pulled the trigger...
...village of Myonmoki, ten miles east of Seoul, lines of straw-hatted farmers stood knee-deep in the flooded paddies, transplanting their delicate rice seedlings. Unlike the city people, most of the farmers did not flee during the war. When the Communists occupied Myonmoki, the young men hid for three months in the hills, returned to their fields when the Communists retreated, did their plowing in a no man's land between the two armies...