Word: hideaway
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...Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they watched the International Rapids plunge in wasted, foamy fury toward the sea, saw where generators could be built to pump 3,400,000 h.p. of electric energy into U.S. and Canadian industry...
...around Arizona and New Mexico's 16 million-acre Navajo Reservation, Indians were trooping in last week to buy such sweets as canned peaches or candy. To the experienced trader, these innocent purchases meant only one thing: a peyote party was in the making. Soon, at some secret hideaway far out in the desert, men, women & children would be enjoying the transitory delights of a powerful drug. After the party they would have a dismal hangover. The sweets were to help straighten them...
...cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around." The trinkets were recently taken from a bank vault, she explained, for a safer country hideaway. "I was worried about the atom bomb...
...show the entire process of blooming, he once rigged up an electrically-controlled movie camera to photograph plants at 15-minute intervals. Now, at a feeding station outside an upstairs window, he is photographing birds. On weekends, he and his wife often fly to Bermuda where they have a hideaway, "Wreck House," supposedly built by pirates. There Greenewalt likes to "goggle" (float on the water and watch fish through goggles...
...lofty, Turner made no pretensions of being so. A barber's son, he scorned society, saved his money, kept his own counsel, and downed his liquor in heroic quantity. He had a big house on Queen Anne Street where he lived with his favorite paintings, and a hideaway on the Thames where he lived with his favorite woman (they were known in the neighborhood as Captain and Mrs. Booth...