Word: hiddenness
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...main Oak Hall, a spacious room paneled in that wood also features a massive oak staircase built without nails. The stairs lead to the balcony and to sitting rooms hidden behind beautifully carved wooden grilles that allowed privileged guests to spy on those below...
...would dine in one of the hidden rooms upstairs and choose his next female victim from among those in the dining room. The count's bedroom across the lobby from the Oak Hall became the USW party committee room, where many a writer was read trumped-up charges before being shipped to the camps or expelled from...
...Victor Beltran, a Haitian laborer speaking to The New York Times. “We do all the work, but our children cannot go to school. We do all the work, but our women cannot go to the hospital. We do all the work, but we have to stay hidden in the shadows...
...takes to be in fashion?' And, boy, was I determined. And I showed him. And I've lived to regret it," she says, and then tops the statement off with a gleeful laugh. Wang is kidding, of course. Her sharp, native--New Yorker wit and sarcasm don't stay hidden under the hem for long. "I say things like this, and people take it and say, 'Vera hates fashion.' And I'm trying to be funny, because if you don't laugh, you're going to keel over...
...Tucking away a treasure like this in a hidden corner, almost defying you to find it, is typical of the fascinating, and slightly maddening, National Museum. There is an extraordinary range of artifacts, stretching down the milleniums. One enters the building's main entrance through two huge stucco pillars that have also been brought in from the desert, this time from the 8th century Umayyad palace al-Hayr al-Gharbi, near Palmyra. Examples of what is suspected to be the world's first alphabet, Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just...