Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the evil big shots seem neither to have been born in Sicily nor to be afflicted with five o'clock shadow, but bear such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving at his hideout, he grumbles that the shrubbery needs watering and the swimming pool is too cold, then expresses horror at Marvin's demand for the missing dough. "We don't handle actual cash," he gasps. "I've only got about...
...North Vietnamese soldiers charged the U.S. positions; some got within 15 feet of Marine machine guns before they were cut down. Marines snatched grenades from their dead buddies and hurled them without taking time to aim. By midnight, the attack faltered; the North Vietnamese filtered back toward their hilly hideout. In the engagement they lost 184 men. The Marines' losses: 70 killed, 184 wounded...
...part of growing up, a way to gain experience and nothing to be alarmed about. Sometimes the boy would be gone for a week or so, but generally his plans to join the circus ended about nightfall, when his empty stomach and the animal sounds near his woodsy hideout quickly convinced him that daddy's razorstrop was not so bad after...
...years of white supremacy. Riots, the argument continues, will knit Negro communities together and will make Black men realize the depth of the struggle they must fight. Finally, riots start spontaneously; they are not planned weeks in advance by a handful of "highly trained agitators in some underground hideout." In conclusion, riots appear to be an unavoidable phenomenon dictated by the conditions which have come before; they are like any other natural disaster, only they are man-made...
Quinn plans a counterattack. Conning the kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything...