Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...band played well, never drowning singers out, but its sound sometimes became a bit muddied on the long trip from the back of the Loeb stage into the auditorium. During the entr'acte, when the curtain which hid the musicians lifted and the spot shone on them for a change, the murk cleared, and the audience could pay some attention to the type of music Ellington wrote without singers' personalities intruding...
...fact the agency's effort in Iran was modest, especially by later standards. It cost no more than $20 million to restore the Shah to the throne and ensure (if only in the short term) American influence in the area. Dulles cleverly hid the importance of luck in the successful coup and revelled in the image of invincibility acquired by the CIA. The CIA mythe was born in Iran and the 1953 coup bears much responsibility for the subsequent expansion of covert activities so that they came to dominate the agency...
...totally unreal by the jerky animation. His Black Riders with their red eyes and shuffling walks suggest the Jawas from Star Wars, not the nightmare spirits who scared me so badly on my first encounter with them at 10 that I put down the book for two years and hid under the covers for weeks afterwards. His Gandalf is a finger-wagging bore, his battle scenes endless parades of ill-defined masses moving back and forth across a painted landscape. His Orcs prompted one lady to say, "That one looks like Nixon...
...rain, to wait till the next day when, perhaps, it would be beautiful again. It was easy to acquiesce. After 210 miles I wanted to climb to the top of the highest peak in the U.S. and take in the view, a pointless effort in the rain which hid the mountain from the view and the view from the mountain...
...miles) northwest of Stuttgart, began plowing up curious stones that had clearly been assembled at the site in ancient times, archaeologists quickly converged on the scene. What they uncovered was the collapsed remnant of a burial mound 60 meters (197 ft.) wide, protected by massive bulwarks that hid the ornately appointed and undisturbed tomb of a Celtic chieftain who died around...