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...last week's cease-fire was greeted skeptically by Eire's Prime Minister Sean Lemass, himself an old I.R.A. hand, who as a 16-year-old was captured by the English, booted in the backside and told to "go home to Mum." But though the I.R.A. craftily hid its weapons and warned that it planned to "prepare for another situation," its leaders would find few fellow countrymen willing to die in 1962 for the Six Green Fields...
Something that for this long year Had hid and halted like a deer...
...bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor, and his baronet father built "beautiful railways...
...contrast, he declared, the 1958 revolution in Venezuela had only provided a convenient disguise for U.S. businesses to hid behind as they "exploited" the people and the country. Vargas charged that Rockefeller's Standard Oil was the real master of Venezuela, and that it was splitting the country's wealth 50-50 with the government...
...paintings a year, but she works almost compulsively from dawn to midnight. Asked why, she simply shrugs. "One must." She is extraordinarily shy. even in middle age; the story goes that when a delegation of women admirers called on her one day, she fled to a closet and hid there until they went away. Not true, says Vieira da Silva: "If there had been a closet, I would have hidden in it. Instead there was a dirty corridor full of junk, and I lay down there on the floor...