Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tedium and pressures of modeling, Cheryl stayed at home, acted as Stan's chauffeur, and lunched out a lot. She got fat. Then one day her scales registered 155. She reacted by stuffing herself with everything in the kitchen. Says Stan: "She started to go up the wall. She hid all the pain of the weight gain. It was bothering her more than she let on to anyone." Finally she was galvanized by a magazine shot of a model in a bathing suit. Within a year she lost 35 lbs. and returned to modeling...
...formula for being a Cabinet officer, he says. But he has a rule that many predecessors did not have. "You have to decide," he says. "Then do it. Don't let problems fester." For more than a decade the people at HEW hid in their bureaucratic maze, pushed problems aside, anything to avoid a clamoring public...
BACKHOUSE EMERGES, in Trevor-Roper's vividly written portrait, as a man who hid himself from probing eyes and re-emerged with his own version of reality. Like the hot-house atmosphere in which it flourished, the main quality of that reality was its self-containment. Trevor-Roper returns to the world of Backhouse's memoris which offer the best prof...
...advised Amador that the U.S. would support the revolution?provided that its leaders would appoint Bunau-Varilla envoy to Washington to draft the canal treaty. Reluctantly and a bit skeptically, Amador agreed. He sailed for Panama with Bunau-Varilla's promise of $100,000 to bribe Colombian troops; he hid his new flag under his clothing, wrapped around his torso. After arriving in Panama, Amador sent a coded cable: "Fate news bad powerful tiger. Urge vapor Colon." It meant that Colombian troops were arriving in five days, and the revolutionary plotters requested a U.S. steamer at Colon. Bunau-Varilla hurried...
Once ashore, the men scrambled up the cliffs barefoot, heedless of kiawe thorns. After the sun rose, they scattered for cover when a Marine patrol helicopter appeared in the azure sky. Danger past, they made a small base camp and hid food and water in secret caches. Late in the afternoon they emerged from cover, easily caught at least seven kinds offish in traditional Hawaiian sling nets and cooked them on steaming stones. For a few hours, the old way of Hawaiian life had been re-established on Kahoolawe...