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...alcoholic whose life was slowly slipping away. Teammates and management were oblivious to the brewing problem as it remained hidden behind a veil of the big leagues. Kelly Gruber, the Blue Jays third baseman at that time, once told the Toronto Sun: "If he had a problem, he hid it well. We've been out and had some good times. I never...
...symbolic execution. The murdered man was sleeping with the killer's wife, who had left her husband and taken the children. In divorce court, where she denied her adultery, she was awarded all her husband's money, leaving him with nothing but sorrow and rage. All night he hid out near the barn, and when his best friend came to do the milking, he shot him point-blank. Then he weighted himself down, waded into the river and put a bullet in his head. The ear was never recovered...
...Belgium, France, Vichy France and the Alps. One September noon, not knowing that Swiss border guards were on watch with binoculars to catch border-crossing refugees, we tumbled down into Switzerland. Right there, a mountain-stalking Swiss family from Champery stumbled onto us. They told us about the guards, hid us in the woods, fetched us after dark, fed us and lodged us, dressed us up to look like respectable people and accompanied us the next morning to a little mountain railway station. We headed for Zurich. Once there, we registered with the Dutch consul and so could...
Baker writes of blood, mixed now with white; slave rebellion; slave capture. "Me, Ezra, and Mamma was all hid in a tunnel behind the wall of the cabin when light flashed between the slits in the board..." A few pages and generations later, a young American black man, well dressed, we assume, money in his pocket, we assume, watches poor blacks in the Caribbean and thinks, "I wanted a connection to these people, wanted to share pots of curried goat and warm lager in Trenchertown because I was one of them." Imagining: "Black people gonna rise up." Knowing sheepishly...
...then there's that mysterious brick building called Dillon Field House that I used to think hid a giant sports complex inside. Instead, its just a gloomy bunch of administrative offices and varsity locker rooms...