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...really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French patrol came along...
There one night last week they found their man. The carabinieri opened fire. Giuliano fled, firing over his shoulder as he went. For 15 minutes the chase led on through labyrinths of twisted alleys and courtyards. Captain Antonio Perenze, leader of the carabinieri, hid in a doorway. A stalking figure crept up, machine gun set. Perenze blasted pointblank. The figure whirled, tottered and fell face down, a dark red splotch welling up under his white shirt...
...shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...
Four pranksters almost forced freshmen to scoop their breakfasts off the floor yesterday. Hiding in the Union until after closing time, the unidentified prowlers snatched over 1,000 trays from the first floor and hid them in the attic...
...first His Majesty was put down merely as an eccentric. Slowly he drifted over into madness. He met a notoriously ugly woman who hid her face under a wide-brimmed floppy hat, stepped up to her, tipped up the hat brim, stared in for a moment and let it drop, saying, "Good God! Even uglier than the Queen...