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...home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under the Franco regime, which requires police permits for gatherings of more than ten, Spain's 8,000 Jews had no place for public worship...
...returning to his native Ningpo after his Shanghai employer had fled the country, had just fallen asleep in a crowded passageway. Suddenly the deck shot from under him, hurling him against a bulkhead, and an explosion roared through the ship. His first thought was "Communists" and he hid with his blanket over his head; but almost instantly he felt water rushing in. Although his leg was broken by the explosion, he managed to fight through the blackness to reach the top deck...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...hid them in a hole lest I should kiss them...
...student who set up the trigger-point is said to have had a surplus of wire and merely hid it under a pile of leaves since he had no pliers or tape needed for splicing