Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filming would be taken as law, but we were wrong. The local military authorities acted on the orders which they had received from Athens. We had already given them 200 feet of film and twelve rolls of color slides, assuring them that was all we had taken. We hid the rest of the film in the woods. Whenever they asked for more film, we simply gave them a roll of dud film which we couldn't use anyway. Every time we asked for the film, they said they would definitely return it the following day, but in fact they...
...Meanwhile, the police were usually checking automobile traffic on the roads out of town. The trains were not always safe, however, as one of the bandits learned after robbing a bank at Brives. When gendarmes began searching the Paris-bound train, Antoine Diez, carrying a satchel containing $14,000, hid outside one of the cars by holding on to two hand rails. Nearly 300 miles later, just outside Paris, the exhausted Diez threw the satchel into a field, jumped off the train, and walked into the city. When he returned for the money the next day, he could not find...
After escaping a police dragnet Friday, Gilday hid for more than 30 hours in a basement cellar. At 9 a.m. Sunday, he emerged in Haverhill, Mass. and forced his way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huberdeau while Huberdeau was out getting milk. Returning, Huberdeau found Gilday holding his wife at gun-point...
...merely typed his last name in and ran laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene and hid for two months in a bordello in Paris' 16th Arrondissement before being arrested...
...more apt description of the battle that had erupted only hours before JY-one came on the air. Savage street battles raged in Amman between Hussein's army and the fedayeen ("men of sacrifice") of the Palestine guerrilla organizations. While the capital's 600,000 residents hid in terror, armored vehicles rumbled up and down the streets, swinging their turrets to counter small-arms fire from nearby buildings. Swiftly, the fighting spread from Amman to other parts of Jordan, centering particularly in towns to the north close to the Syrian border, where the guerrillas were able to put up their...