Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rockin' chair's got me Cane by my side Fetch me that gin, son 'Fore I tan yo hide...
...tested its strength against its neighbors, knows its social position and stays in it. Newcomers must battle for places in this set order. But since (like human immigrants) they do not know the new country, they are at a disadvantage. When danger threatens, they do not know where to hide. The newcomers do not know the best sources of food, and therefore lose weight and strength...
...there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone of kindly expostulation: 'My men . . . All these matters are in the hands of God, and nothing that you can do will make you safer...
Even Kuomintang assemblymen found that they were not so interested in Li's past as in what he was saying about China today: "We must not hide China's sickness . . . What we need in the way of medicine is thoroughgoing reform...
...half a century, doctors have known that infected mosquitoes spread malaria. The unsolved mystery has been: Where does the parasite that causes malaria hide out during the ten-day interval between the mosquito's bite and the appearance of the fever? An answer might cut down the world death rate from malaria, still nearly 2,000,000 victims a year...