Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court...
Looking uncharacteristically jowly, Nobel Prizewinning Poet T. S. (The Waste Land) Eliot, 68, arrived at London Airport after a flight from his three-week honeymoon hideout on the French Riviera. At T.S.'s side was his second wife (his first died in 1947), Valerie Fletcher Eliot, 30, a shining inspiration to millions of secretaries dearly hoping to marry their bosses...
...task simpler was that Cypriots were talking-a sign, in the eyes of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, that they are weary of fruitless terrorism. A man found in possession of a pistol (under the emergency regulations, an offense punishable by death) volunteered to tell of an underground hideout. After a hard search on terraced hillside vineyards, the soldiers found a 2-ft.-by-2-ft. opening leading down to a 15-ft.-by-10-ft. subterranean room. Three terrorists, smoked out of this room, told of other secret places. A total of 17 hideouts (not all of them occupied...
...Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...promoted more than 100 army officers, including many in rebellious Sumatra. Last week, in yet another conciliatory gesture, the Premier dispatched Army Chief of Staff Nasution to Sumatra. Nasution's prime task: to coax Colonel Maludin Simbolon, most popular of the Sumatra rebels, out of his jungle hideout and "reconcile" him to the government...