Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temporarily frustrated when the president jumped into an elevator and rushed into his fourth-floor office, a group of students followed in other elevators. As Mackey hid inside, the demonstrators continued their verbal assault in the hall and pasted "Mackey Mouse" stickers on the walls. Minutes later, someone spied the president escaping out a rear exit, and the crowd followed him outside the building, where an unmarked police car rescued him and sped away...
...leaders, including Greene, describe the IRS as omnipotent. Says the California tax rebel: "These bastards have so much power they can take innocent citizens and screw them to the wall." The truth is, though, that the IRS's enforcement power has deteriorated. Like the Wizard of Oz, who hid his timidity behind a screen, the IRS tries to disguise its own limited enforcement capabilities by playing up a reputation for toughness...
...that he can thank Johnson. After the production of dozens of planes, the U-2 assembly line was shut down in 1969. Ordinarily the millions of dollars in tools, dies and jigs for crafting the planes would have been scrapped. But Johnson had a premonition. "I hid 'em away in four different places," he recalls. "Put them in Cosmoline [a greasy preservative] just in case we'd ever get a rainy...
...rocky ground that stretches 2,300 miles from northwestern Montana through southern Arizona. The Overthrust Belt was formed eons ago, when two tectonic plates of the earth's crust heaved and crunched together, crinkling one plate over the other. Geologists have known for decades that the region hid pools of oil and gas some 12,000 to 20,000 feet below the earth's surface, but exploration and drilling had proved too expensive...
...would say was, 'No, ma'am, Coach Bryant is right.' I told him to stay with me. He came out to the house and stayed several days in a room downstairs. Paul never did know it; I never told him." Says Namath: "She hid me out. It was a tough, trying time in my young life. I was hurt. She knew that and responded by protecting me, helping in a motherly way." The next year Namath came back to star again...