Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other candidates were not playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...Army was begging for them. Big newspaper advertisements challenged Canada's manhood: "You will never join the Victory Parade in Berlin by sitting in an easy chair." The Army's Recruiting Director, Brigadier James Mess, broadcast to Canadians still at home and fit for battle: "You . . . cannot hide behind a petticoat, whether it be your wife's or your mother...
...House had tired of all these arguments. What Pearl Harbor military secrets would now be useful to the Japs huddled under bombs at Truk, 3,600 miles southwest of Hawaii? If officers can spare time for Washington trips, why not for a trial? And if there is nothing to hide, why the stone wall against an investigation? The House Democrats & Republicans alike lined up behind Dewey Short's de mand that the Army & Navy start court-martial wheels turning within three months. The Senate voted a full year's delay, thus forcing a compromise at six months...
...able-bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
...flopped down on a Florida beach to rest. Last week, his rest was up. He stepped in as the new president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen's salary (Ford paid him $220,000 yearly) he got an option on a sizable chunk of Willys stock...