Word: hideout
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...last week's battle thousands of Rumanians laid down their arms. One group emerged from a forest hideout, begged Cossack cavalrymen: "Please take us prisoners!" The scornful Russians cried, "Back there! Back there!" sent them into internment without guards...
Totem Pole--At this quaint hideout were bottom men Mat Arsulich and Dale Waddell happy about the whole. Yes, this is one nice place...
...story of the original "Terrible" Touhy's last days at large. There are exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against its massive prison buildings...
Secret Life. Underground couriers shuttle fantastically from Poland to Britain across the face of the shackled Continent. Inbound, they drop by parachute into Poland's night from Allied planes. A secret radio, SWIT (meaning dawn), has operatives who carry transmitters in handbags, dodge from hideout to hideout...
When Britain's Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France's most discussed, most influential man of letters, septuagenarian Novelist Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. German patrols, Gide explained, had captured a copy of his latest, frankest journal of events and he had been in hiding for a month. He soon buttonholed an Eighth Army photographer, plunged into an enthusiastic discussion of pre-Nazi German poetry...