Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jewish lawyer who as a youngster hid in a closet listening to the Gestapo torture the neighbor's children, argues that sending innocent people to ovens is no common crime...
...analysis identified 26 countries with a low ratio of want formation to want satisfaction and hence low "systemic frustration" and 36 countries with a high ratio and hence high "systemic frustration." Of the 26 satisfied societies, only six (Argentina, Belgium, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Union of South Africa) hid high degrees of political instability. Of the 36 dissatisfied countries, only two (Philippines, Tunisia) had high levels of political stability. The overall correlation between frustration and instability...
...HIGH School, I was picked absolutely last when it came time to choose sides for anything from softball to field hockey. Wise captains hid me in the backfield where I couldn't do very much damage. So, I came to college without a thought of pursuing a sport. Journalism became my principal extracurricular pursuit, and the walk from Dunster to 14 Plympton Street constituted my only real form of exercise...
...establish his credibility, Khaled led police to Rome's Villa Glori park, where they found the spot under a tree at which the terrorists hid four Kalashnikov machine guns and 15 hand grenades used in the airport attack. The safety plugs for the grenades were still there. He also directed authorities to Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, where they found a bomb timing device in a toothpaste tube inside a mausoleum...
...double irony that Isak Dinesen, who hid behind pseudonyms and coveted the Nobel Prize, is currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects...