Word: hideouts
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...Good Man." High on the Allies' blacklist stood the name of notorious Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...
...posts Tomás Confesor was both happy and busy. The long hideout had given him time to think of a lot that needed doing. His timetable of reconstruction and reform was a 25-year-plan for the Philippines...
...bronze General, lying on his side, bided his time in an Odessa cellar. Last week, with Ismail again Russian and Russia again interested in its heroes of the past, the General was hoisted out of his hideout, dusted off and readied for his 120-mile journey to Ismail's public square...
Later the same night the sergeant followed footprints in the snow for four miles (it took three hours) to another isolated cabin, found two more deserters. A few days later a fifth was caught in a hideout north of Fort William. Four of the five were Canadians of Central European descent...
Western Words is a dictionary of 3,000 expressions, many still current, "of the range, cowcamp and trail." It begins with ace in the hole, meaning either a shoulder holster or a hideout, and it ends with zorrillas, cattle of the early longhorn breed...