Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends, Rivera and Kahlo were known as "sacred monsters," symbols of "the race" that would be reborn in Communism. Pistol-packing Diego trooped about in work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None...
...able to ride, but the Princess, who fell from a horse when she was small, has no love for the sport). Carraro's information was accurate. After dodging hordes of amateur cameramen and the police, and being scared silly by the Queen's pack of search dogs as he hid with two other cameramen in bushes near the Sandringham riding fields, he clicked off $1,500 worth of shots of Diana, the Queen and Charles on horseback. "Charles saw us, and he was fuming," Carraro recalled happily. "We ran like hell. There are a lot of fast moves in this...
...sweetness of manner and luminous smile belie the visions of violence that invaded his childhood and have informed his fiction. The son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he was eleven years old when his parents were arrested under the Nazi occupation. The boy fled to Budapest and hid with other Jews in a house that was under the protection of a foreign embassy. The young fugitive scrounged for dry beans and moldy sausage. Searching for a relative in a ghetto hospital, he came upon a mountain of bodies that had been machine-gunned by Hungarian Nazis...
...stay put and gamble on the janitor's not retracing her own steps. For the next 45 minutes they sat motionless and listened while their janitor and one other clanked around Levels One and Two with their cleaning equipment. At 12:55 Jill's nerves gave out and she hid under her desk. At 1:15 the clanking became so insistent that neither of them could take it any more Betting on another rumor they'd heard, that the tunnel to Pusey Library stayed open all night, they risked the stairs again and headed all the way down--from...
Jack and Jill never found out for sure. But they hid behind stacks on D West, in carrel B-20 under the archives of the World Zionist Organization, and on C near Mass Ave (Educ 1028.2) In carrel B-20 after a prolonged skulk up to Level Two, they fell asleep and were awakened rudely at 5:45 by a radio...